Sures file before the ICC systematizes more than five years of application of coercive measures by the United States against Venezuela - MPPRE

Sures file before the ICC systematizes more than five years of application of coercive measures by the United States against Venezuela

Lucrecia Hernández, director of the Sures organization, encouraged to be positive in the case that she filed on behalf of civil society before the International Criminal Court (ICC), which substantiates the demmand made by the Venezuelan Government on February 13 against the application of unilateral coercive measures by the United States Government for constituting crimes against humanity.

In an interview with the multistate Telesur, the representative of the Venezuelan civil association, dedicated to the defense of human rights, explained that there are elements to raise hope such as the antecedents in the ICC of conviction cases; the fact that international community, as well as instances of the United Nations, are reacting in the face of the application of these measures, such as the special rapporteurships and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, who have spoken out against their maintenance in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The director of Sures explained that they have been systematizing for more than five years the application of these measures, whose starting point is set in Law 113-278 of the US Congress of 2014, which affects the entire financial dynamics of the Bolivarian Republic, by hindering all operations of PDVSA and the Central Bank of Venezuela.

She specified that as of this Law, the US Government began to issue a series of executive orders, which are like emergency decrees that enable the issuance of other measures by entities such as the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Treasury Department, which have been affecting all the commercial relations of Venezuela with the world.

Lucrecia Hernández explained that for the preparation of the file sent to the ICC, they exchanged methodology with organizations from countries such as Cuba and China, with old-time blocks, for the collection and systematization of information.

She also specified that the file includes testimonies and complaints that Sures receives every day about how the rights of the people are violated through the application of unilateral coercive measures imposed by the US administration and that is replicated in countries allied to it.

The director urged to continue betting on multilateralism and the United Nations as an instance for conflict resolution and to manage the solution to the serious problems of humanity, and therefore urged the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council to keep approving resolutions and concrete condemnations to the blockade issue, and to serve as a forum where countries can sit down to talk so that these measures against the peoples of the world are definitively eliminated.