Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Caracas, Mar 26th. - The member states of the ALBA-TCP categorically rejected the announcement by the United States Government to impose tariffs of 25 percent on countries that trade hydrocarbons with Venezuela, transcended today.
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas Trade Treaty said last night, in a statement, that such a measure violates the most elementary norms of international trade, by generating openly discriminatory treatment of the Bolivarian Republic.
It said the U.S. punitive measure has the known goal of affecting its national income and the health of its economy, generating suffering in the population.
The Latin American and Caribbean integration bloc denounced the absurd motivation of this measure of economic aggression, which aims to justify the criminalization and stigmatization of the Venezuelan migrant population, by promoting the systematic violation of their human rights.
All this, it said, apart from the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations, international law and the international covenants on respect for the migrant population.
ALBA-TCP noted that in the format of the unfounded and ideological aggressions, the U.S. government is engaged in a new onslaught against Venezuela, announcing the imposition of extortive trade measures.
It stressed that they are aimed at affecting the good progress of the Venezuelan economy, with the clear objective of destabilizing institutions and peace in the sister nation.
The Bolivarian Alliance considered this context inadmissible and urged the international community to unequivocally condemn this illegal, criminal and hostile action by the United States Government.
It stressed that it not only threatens the development and well-being of the Venezuelan people, but constitutes a real threat to the peoples of all the countries of Our Latin America and the Caribbean. (Text and photo: PL)
