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.”
So Maduro is guilty until proven innocent.
Well… he wasn’t exactly innocent.
I don’t condone what happened, but Maduro was not a great man either.
Another “The US lies about everything but I trust everything they say about their enemies”
Maduro is a democratically elected president loved by the working classes, he is targeted by the US because he continued Venezuela’s policy of nationalizing the oil industry. This is naked colonialism.
“Democratically elected” that’s debatable.
The same people who said Trump won 2020 are telling you Maduro lost to an unpopular far-right candidate supported most among Venezuelans by those who live in Miami, not Venezuela.
Yeah, the US and its puppets say the election was stolen!
but i thought switzerland was neutral! /s
Swiss government says it’s going to go ahead and hold on to that money until everyone forgets about it.
It’s very telling seeing how the Western countries reacted to Russia invading Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, and now the US invading Venezuela. It’s now crystal clear that the West does not care about any moral principles, and the actual tension over Ukraine is whose sphere of influence it’s under.
