Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to Venezuela
Signed January 25, 2019·Donald Trump·84 FR 509
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Amends earlier executive orders addressing the national emergency with respect to Venezuela (Executive Orders 13692, 13808, 13827, 13835, and 13850) by revising the definition of "Government of Venezuela" in each. The updated definition covers the Venezuelan state and government, any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, explicitly including the Central Bank of Venezuela and the state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), along with any entity owned or controlled by them and anyone acting on their behalf, including members of what the order calls the Maduro regime. The order cites ongoing human rights violations, arrests of protesters, press freedom restrictions, and efforts to undermine Venezuela's Interim President and National Assembly as context. It states it does not alter existing agency authorities or create new legal rights, and is to be implemented consistent with applicable law and available funding.
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Claimed authority
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code
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Disposition
See: EO 13692, March 8, 2015; EO 13808, August 24, 2017; EO 13827, March 19, 2018; EO 13835, May 21, 2018; EO 13850, November 1, 2018
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13857 of January 25, 2019
Taking Additional Steps To Address the National
Emergency With Respect to Venezuela
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the International Emergency Economic
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the National
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section
301 of title 3, United States Code,
I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of
America, in order to take additional steps with respect
to the national emergency declared in Executive Order
13692 of March 8, 2015, and relied upon for additional
steps taken in Executive Order 13808 of August 24,
2017, Executive Order 13827 of March 19, 2018,
Executive Order 13835 of May 21, 2018, and Executive
Order 13850 of November 1, 2018, particularly in light
of 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, hereby order:
Section 1. (a) Subsection (d) of section 6 of Executive
Order 13692, subsection (d) of section 3 of Executive
Order 13808, subsection (d) of section 3 of Executive
Order 13827, subsection (d) of section 3 of Executive
Order 13835, and subsection (d) of section 6 of
Executive Order 13850, are hereby amended to read as
follows:
“(d) the term “Government of Venezuela” includes
the state and Government of Venezuela, any political
subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof,
including the Central Bank of Venezuela and Petroleos
de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), any person owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by the foregoing,
and any person who has acted or purported to act
directly or indirectly for or on behalf of, any of the
foregoing, including as a member of the Maduro
regime.”
Sec. 2. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to
impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 25, 2019.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed January 25, 2019. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.