(20 Nov 2024)
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Caracas, Venezuela – 19 November 2024
1. Various of Jorge Rodriguez, president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, arriving to the precinct ++ MUTE ++
2. Wide of National Assembly ++ MUTE ++
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Rodriguez, President of the Venezuelan National Assembly:
"They believe that with this type of measures, they are going to make us cower. It is exactly the opposite, it is diametrically the opposite. Every time they come with an aggressive action against Venezuela, Venezuela will respond in the same way and in a reciprocal manner through its constitution and its laws, but with the firm determination that impunity should never happen again, that crimes should never be repeated, the crimes against humanity should never be repeated."
4. Portraits of Venezuela’s independence hero, Simón Bolivar (left) and late Venezuela president Hugo Chavez (right)
5. Lawmakers
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Rodriguez, President of the Venezuelan National Assembly:
"I propose that this special ‘Liberator Simón Bolívar’ Law includes the political disqualification in perpetuity of those who have committed such harmful acts, such brutal acts against the Republic. They should leave, go to Washington, go to Miami, find residence in Salamanca’s or Madrid’s Golden Mile. Enough is enough."
7. Lawmakers voting to approve proposal of law
8. Lawmakers applauding
STORYLINE:
Venezuela’s National Assembly proposed a new law that seeks to ban from running for office anyone who supports sanctions imposed against Venezuela.
The proposal came as a response to a bill passed by United States’ House of Representatives called Banning Operations and Leases with Illegitimate Venezuelan Authoritarian Regime, better known by its acronym, "Bolivar", referring to Venezuela’s independence hero, Simón Bolivar.
The U.S. bill seeks to complement existing sanctions by prohibiting the U.S. government from creating contracts
with any person that has business operations with Venezuela’s government of Nicolás Maduro, considered by the US as illegitimate.
"They believe that with this type of measures they are going to make us cower," said Jorge Rodriguez who dubbed the new law after the independence hero, Simon Bolivar. "Every time they come with an aggressive action against Venezuela, Venezuela will respond in the same way."
Rodriguez did not specify the framework upon which the new law would be applied, but he mentioned opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and former opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, who was recognized on Monday by the U.S government as "president-elect".
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recognized González in a post on X in which he also demanded “respect for the will” of Venezuelan voters.
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has said González earned the most votes in the disputed July 28 election but had fallen short of acknowledging him as president-elect.
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council, which is stacked with Maduro loyalists, declared Maduro the election winner hours after polls closed. Unlike previous presidential elections, electoral authorities did not provide detailed vote counts.
AP Video by Juan Arraez
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