Orden Ejecutiva, La Casa Blanca, 9 de marzo de 2015:
I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, find that the situation in Venezuela, including the Government of Venezuela’s erosion of human rights guarantees, persecution of political opponents, curtailment of press freedoms, use of violence and human rights violations and abuses in response to antigovernment protests, and arbitrary arrest and detention of antigovernment protestors, as well as the exacerbating presence of significant public corruption, …
Es curioso: ¿no podría acaso decirse exactamente lo mismo de España? (Ah, que no tenemos una de las mayores, si no la mayor, de las reservas de petróleo del mundo; ya caigo…) En fin, el párrafo termina con una solemne a la par que disparatada declaración:
… constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
