The Government of Maduro rejects the extension of a US decree that declares Venezuela "as an unusual and extraordinary threat"

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(CNN Spanish) --

The government of questioned President Nicolás Maduro rejected the one-year extension of the decree that declares Venezuela "as an unusual and extraordinary threat" to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.

The document was originally signed in March 2015 by then-President Barack Obama.

The Biden government extended the validity of the decree because it considers that the situation in Venezuela "has not improved."

• Venezuela rejects extension of the United States decree that declares it an "unusual and extraordinary threat"

In 2015, the Obama administration claimed that the Maduro regime eroded human rights guarantees, persecuted its political opponents, harassed the independent press, committed human rights violations and abuses in the repression of anti-government protests, including the arbitrary detention of protesters, and denounced "the exacerbated presence" of "significant government corruption."

Foreign Minister Yván Gil described the renewal of the decree "as a policy of aggression" in a statement published Thursday on his Twitter account.

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“The Bolivarian Government also condemns the unfounded assertion that Venezuela represents some kind of threat against the United States, even more so when it is evident that Venezuela has been the country that has had to face a multiplicity of threats, blackmail, aggression, and attacks. ”, the document details.

The Venezuelan government adds that this decision is "authoritarian" and that it disrespects its sovereignty.

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