[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 45 (Friday, March 6, 2020)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 13473-13474]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-04822]



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Vol. 85

Friday,

No. 45

March 6, 2020

Part VIII





The President





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Notice of March 5, 2020--Continuation of the National Emergency With 
Respect to Venezuela
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                Notice of March 5, 2020

                
Continuation of the National Emergency With 
                Respect to Venezuela

                On March 8, 2015, the President issued Executive Order 
                13692, declaring a national emergency with respect to 
                the situation in Venezuela based on the Government of 
                Venezuela's erosion of human rights guarantees; 
                persecution of political opponents; curtailment of 
                press freedoms; use of violence and human rights 
                violations and abuses in response to antigovernment 
                protests; and arbitrary arrest and detention of 
                antigovernment protestors, as well as the exacerbating 
                presence of significant government corruption.

                On August 24, 2017, I issued Executive Order 13808 to 
                take additional steps, with respect to the national 
                emergency declared in Executive Order 13692, to address 
                serious abuses of human rights and fundamental 
                freedoms; the deepening humanitarian crisis in 
                Venezuela; the establishment of an illegitimate 
                Constituent Assembly, which usurped the power of the 
                democratically elected National Assembly and other 
                branches of the Government of Venezuela; rampant public 
                corruption; and ongoing repression and persecution of, 
                and violence toward, the political opposition.

                On March 19, 2018, I issued Executive Order 13827 to 
                take additional steps, with respect to the national 
                emergency declared in Executive Order 13692, to address 
                actions taken by the Maduro regime to attempt to 
                circumvent United States sanctions by issuing a digital 
                currency in a process that Venezuela's democratically-
                elected National Assembly denounced as unlawful.

                On May 21, 2018, I issued Executive Order 13835 to take 
                additional steps, with respect to the national 
                emergency declared in Executive Order 13692, to address 
                actions of the Maduro regime, including endemic 
                economic mismanagement and public corruption at the 
                expense of the Venezuelan people and their prosperity, 
                and repression of the political opposition; attempts to 
                undermine democratic order by holding snap elections 
                that were neither free nor fair; and the deepening 
                humanitarian and public health crisis in Venezuela.

                On November 1, 2018, I issued Executive Order 13850 to 
                take additional steps, with respect to the national 
                emergency declared in Executive Order 13692, to address 
                actions by the Maduro regime and associated persons to 
                plunder Venezuela's wealth for their own corrupt 
                purposes; degrade Venezuela's infrastructure and 
                natural environment through economic mismanagement and 
                confiscatory mining and industrial practices; and 
                catalyze a regional migration crisis by neglecting the 
                basic needs of the Venezuelan people.

                On January 25, 2019, I issued Executive Order 13857 to 
                take additional steps, with respect to the national 
                emergency declared in Executive Order 13692, to address 
                actions by persons affiliated with the illegitimate 
                Maduro regime, including human rights violations and 
                abuses in response to anti-Maduro protests; arbitrary 
                arrest and detention of anti-Maduro protestors; 
                curtailment of press freedom; harassment of political 
                opponents; and continued attempts to undermine the 
                Interim President of Venezuela and undermine the 
                National Assembly, the only legitimate branch of 
                government duly elected by the Venezuelan people, and 
                to prevent the Interim President and the National 
                Assembly from exercising legitimate authority in 
                Venezuela.

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                On August 5, 2019, I issued Executive Order 13884 that 
                imposed a full economic block on the Government of 
                Venezuela, with respect to the national emergency 
                declared in Executive Order 13692, for its continued 
                human rights abuses, including the arbitrary or 
                unlawful arrest and detention of Venezuelan citizens, 
                interference with freedom of expression, including for 
                members of the media, and ongoing attempts to undermine 
                the Interim President of Venezuela and Venezuelan 
                National Assembly's exercise of legitimate authority in 
                Venezuela.

                The circumstances described in Executive Order 13692, 
                and subsequent Executive Orders issued with respect to 
                Venezuela, have not improved, and these circumstances 
                in Venezuela continue to pose an unusual and 
                extraordinary threat to the national security and 
                foreign policy of the United States. Therefore, in 
                accordance with section 202(d) of the National 
                Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing 
                for 1 year the national emergency declared in Executive 
                Order 13692.

                This notice shall be published in the Federal Register 
                and transmitted to the Congress.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    March 5, 2020.

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