Venezuela's Bank Accounts, Property In US Frozen - Guaido's Representative

MEXICO CITY (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 22nd February, 2019) Those Venezuelan diplomats appointed by opposition parliament speaker Juan Guaido managed to achieve the freezing of the accounts and properties of the Latin American country in the United States, Gustavo Marcano, senior aide to the Venezuelan opposition's envoy to the United States, said Thursday.

"We found out that there is a lot of property in the US, and we managed to protect these assets so that they remain the property of the republic. The bank accounts of the embassy and various consulates of Venezuela in the United States were also protected. The regime [of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro] will not be able to use this money, they are frozen," Marcano said.

He also said that the Maduro government wanted to sell the consulate in New York in 2017.

"We arrived and achieved its protection, as well as of the military attache building in Washington. We managed to avoid their sale, now Venezuela has eight premises: five in Washington and three in New York," Marcano said.

Guaido was almost immediately recognized by the United States and a number of other countries after delcaring himself interim leader. Russia, China, Mexico, Turkey and Uruguay were among those that have voiced their support for Nicolas Maduro as the country's legitimately elected president.