Caracas: The measures imposed by the US government on Venezuela reach their maximum expression in the international financial market to impede access to the import of basic goods destined for society, Prensa Latina reports.

In this regard, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, denounced in recent statements that the siege contradicts international law and the Charter of the United Nations, premises promulgated by Washington as part of its policy.

According to a balance offered by the Minister, the blockade against Caracas provokes the increase of costs for banking commissions, the closing of accounts of the Venezuelan State and the illegal appropriation of resources in dollars and other currencies by foreign governments.

"It has generated suffering for the Venezuelan people. It is criminal what the government of the United States is doing and we are going to insist on diplomacy, in dialogue, so that the national economy will be unblocked”, the diplomat added.

Only the withholding of foreign currency amounts to more than 4 billion dollars in assets of the oil country immobilized in international banking.

Among other consequences, the most recent sanctions have frustrated the transaction of 4 million 851 thousand 252 euros needed for the care of 26 Venezuelan patients in Italy, part of an agreement of state Petroleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) for spinal cord transplant.

In this regard, the executive secretary of the National Council of Human Rights of the South American country, Larry Devoe, denounced the direct sanctions against PDVSA as the cause for the cessation of social initiatives aimed at assisting patients in situations of vulnerability.

"We have presented in recent weeks evidence of how this economic and financial blockade is impacting the most vulnerable sectors of our population and in this case patients, sick people”, he said in an interview with the Chinese agency Xinhua.

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