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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that from now on, all Americans visiting the country must have a visa. The leader also asked to downsize the number of US embassy staff in Caracas.
“I've thought about it…First I have ordered the Foreign Ministry...to proceed immediately, to review...[and] limit the number of officials at the [US] embassy in Venezuela,” Maduro said. “They have 100 staff, we have 17.”
“In order to protect our country...I have decided to implement a system of compulsory visas for all Americans entering Venezuela,” Maduro said in a speech on Saturday.
He claim that this is a reciprocal measure to equal what every Venezuelan needs to pay to travel to the US. While announcing this new measure, he affirmed that Venezuela has caught various american citizens involved in espionage.
Bans Bush and Chaney
While giving his speech he added that former US President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and Republican Congress members Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Robert Menendez, and Marco Rubio won't have access to visas, labeling Bush and Cheney as “terrorists.”
The travel bans, Maduro said, target those who “violated human rights and bombed villages as in Iraq, Syria and Vietnam.”
From now on, US diplomats will be required to seek approval from the Foreign Ministry for meetings they conduct in Venezuela.
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