The move is meant to ensure illicitly acquired assets cannot be transferred out of Switzerland. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

GENEVA – The Swiss government said on Jan 5 that it had decided to freeze any assets held in Switzerland by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro or his associates “with immediate effect”.

Bern said it had reached its decision after Mr Maduro was seized in Caracas in a shock US military operation and brought to New York to face narcotrafficking charges.

Describing the situation as “volatile”, the Swiss government said in a statement that it wanted “to ensure that any illicitly acquired assets cannot be transferred out of Switzerland in the current situation”.

“The asset freeze comes into force today with immediate effect and will remain valid for four years until further notice.”

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    From your own link

    The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a non-profit organization that focuses on promoting and protecting human rights globally, with an emphasis on authoritarian regimes.[2] HRF organizes the Oslo Freedom Forum. The Human Rights Foundation was founded in 2005 by Thor Halvorssen Mendoza, a Venezuelan film producer and human rights advocate. The current chairman is Russian opposition activist Yulia Navalnaya, and Javier El-Hage is the current chief legal officer. The foundation’s head office is in the Empire State Building in New York City.[2][3][4]

    The Human Rights Foundation was founded in 2005 by Venezuelan human rights advocate and film producer Thor Halvorssen Mendoza in response to the alarming rise of authoritarianism in Latin America,[5] particularly in Venezuela.[6]

    His family’s deeply personal experience with political repression—his father was arbitrarily imprisoned and his mother seriously wounded by security forces during a protest—shaped HRF’s early mission to boldly defend individual rights in closed societies.[7] HRF’s founding council included figures such as Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and former Czech president Václav Havel, who called the organization “an essential voice for freedom” and later chaired its International Council until his death in 2011.

    Initially focused on Latin America, HRF worked on legal advocacy, international litigation, and public campaigns on behalf of political prisoners. It later expanded its focus to the global stage, taking on cases in countries such as North Korea, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. Today, HRF runs campaigns and engages in bold, unapologetic pro-democracy advocacy around the world, with a laser-sharp focus on countries classified as authoritarian or hybrid authoritarian.

    Essentially, a gusano that lost out when Chavez nationalized the oil industry among others for the good of the people made a non-profit to deliver US State department propaganda around the world about the US Empire’s geopolitical enemies. They also shill for cryptocurrency. They’re a far-right think-tank.

    I guess Venezuela is full of “Gusanos” as you call them because 7.9 million isn’t a small number hermano.

    It is and was, but also has had people flee due to economic problems caused by the US Empire sanctioning them, not a fault of Maduro or Chavez.

    Not denying Operation Gideon either, but can you please point me to where Biden did this? According to your own link the operation was primarily planned by Clíver Alcalá Cordones (retired Venezuelan major general) and Jordan Goudreau (a canadian american mercenary).

    It was supported by the US government, and is merely one of many attempts by the empire to undermine Venezuelan socialism.

    Venezuela was never socialist. Hell, the US is more socialist than Venezuela. Venezuela is more of a marxism-leninism when it comes to the government it has.

    Marxism-Leninism is socialist, but Venezuela is closer to reformist socialism than Marxism-Leninism. The US Empire is capitalist, the large firms and key industries are privately owned and capitalists in charge of the state. I don’t know what you think Marxism-Leninism is, but if you want a primer, check out section 0 of the intro ML reading list I made.

    Lastly, what Trump did is an illegal act of war both in the international laws side and in the laws of the united states as he didn’t even get congress to sign off on (not that this would make it OK either). However, the point isn’t that the US is good or bad (because the US currently has a corrupt and out of control government at the moment), it’s that Maduro did not get elected.

    You haven’t proven that Maduro didn’t get elected, though, you’ve just posted that the majority of western countries and compradors believe him to not be. The majority of the world upholds Maduro as legitimate and the constitutionally recognized president of Venezuela. The US Empire has always been corrupt and “out of control,” Trump is just the latest in a long line of imperialists.