Blocking Property of the Government of Venezuela

Executive Order 13884 of August 5, 2019

Blocking Property of the Government of 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.) (IEEPA), the
National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.),
section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), 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 (Blocking Property and
Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the
Situation in Venezuela), as amended, as relied upon for
additional steps taken in subsequent Executive Orders,
and in light of the continued usurpation of power by
Nicolas Maduro and persons affiliated with him, as well
as human rights abuses, including 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
Interim President Juan Guaido and the Venezuelan
National Assembly's exercise of legitimate authority in
Venezuela, hereby order:

Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property
of the Government of Venezuela that are in the United
States, that hereafter come within the United States,
or that are or hereafter come within the possession or
control of any United States person are blocked and may
not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or
otherwise dealt in.

    (b) All property and interests in property that are
in the United States, that hereafter come within the
United States, or that are or hereafter come within the
possession or control of any United States person of
the following persons are blocked and may not be
transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise
dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary of the
Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State:

(i) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial,
material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in
support of, any person included on the list of Specially Designated
Nationals and Blocked Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets
Control whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to
this order; or

(ii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for
or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and
interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.

    (c) The prohibitions in subsections (a)-(b) of this
section apply except to the extent provided by
statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or
licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and
notwithstanding any contract entered into or any
license or permit granted prior to the effective date
of this order.

Sec. 2. The unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant
entry into the United States of aliens determined to
meet one or more of the criteria in section 1(b) of
this order would be detrimental to the interests of the
United States, and entry of such persons into the
United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, is
hereby suspended, except when the Secretary of State
determines that the person's entry would not be
contrary to the interests of

the United States, including when the Secretary so
determines, based on a recommendation of the Attorney
General, that the person's entry would further
important United States law enforcement objectives. In
exercising this responsibility, the Secretary of State
shall consult the Secretary of Homeland Security on
matters related to admissibility or inadmissibility
within the authority of the Secretary of Homeland
Security. Such persons shall be treated in the same
manner as persons covered by section 1 of Proclamation
8693 of July 24, 2011 (Suspension of Entry of Aliens
Subject to United Nations Security Council Travel Bans
and International Emergency Economic Powers Act
Sanctions). The Secretary of State shall have the
responsibility for implementing this section pursuant
to such conditions and procedures as the Secretary has
established or may establish pursuant to Proclamation
8693.

Sec. 3. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order
include:

    (a) the making of any contribution or provision of
funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of
any person whose property and interests in property are
blocked pursuant to this order; and
    (b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of
funds, goods, or services from any such person.

Sec. 4. (a) Any transaction that evades or avoids, has
the purpose of evading or avoiding, causes a violation
of, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set
forth in this order is prohibited.

    (b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the
prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

Sec. 5. Nothing in this order shall prohibit:

    (a) transactions for the conduct of the official
business of the Federal Government by employees,
grantees, or contractors thereof; or
    (b) transactions related to the provision of
articles such as food, clothing, and medicine intended
to be used to relieve human suffering.

Sec. 6. For the purposes of this order:

    (a) the term “person” means an individual or
entity;
    (b) the term “entity” means a partnership,
association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group,
subgroup, or other organization;
    (c) the term “United States person” means any
United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity
organized under the laws of the United States or any
jurisdiction within the United States (including
foreign branches), or any person in the United States;
and
    (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.
For the purposes of section 2 of this order, the term
“Government of Venezuela” shall not include any
United States citizen, any permanent resident alien of
the United States, any alien lawfully admitted to the
United States, or any alien holding a valid United
States visa.

Sec. 7. For those persons whose property and interests
in property are blocked pursuant to this order who
might have a constitutional presence in the United
States, I find that because of the ability to transfer
funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to
such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this
order would render those measures ineffectual. I
therefore determine that for these measures to be
effective in addressing the national emergency declared
in Executive Order 13692, there need be no prior notice
of a listing or determination made pursuant to section
1 of this order.

Sec. 8. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation
with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to
take such actions, including promulgating

rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted
to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to
implement this order. The Secretary of the Treasury
may, consistent with applicable law, redelegate any of
these functions within the Department of the Treasury.
All agencies of the United States Government shall take
all appropriate measures within their authority to
carry out the provisions of this order.

Sec. 9. (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.

Sec. 10. This order is effective at 9:00 a.m. eastern
daylight time on August 5, 2019.

    (Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    August 5, 2019.