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Federal Register
Vol. 83, No. 213
Friday, November 2, 2018
Title 3—
The President
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Presidential Documents
Executive Order 13850 of November 1, 2018
Blocking Property of Additional Persons Contributing to the
Situation in 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 Emer-
gencies 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)) (INA), the Venezuela Defense
of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–278),
as amended (the Venezuelan Defense of Human Rights Act), 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, and relied upon for additional
steps taken in Executive Order 13808 of August 24, 2017, Executive Order
13827 of March 19, 2018, and Executive Order 13835 of May 21, 2018,
particularly in light of actions by the Maduro regime and associated persons
to plunder Venezuela’s wealth for their own corrupt purposes, degrade Ven-
ezuela’s infrastructure and natural environment through economic mis-
management and confiscatory mining and industrial practices, and catalyze
a regional migration crisis by neglecting the basic needs of the Venezuelan
people, hereby order as follows:
Section 1. (a) 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withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary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 operate in the gold sector of the Venezuelan economy or in any
other sector of the Venezuelan economy as may be determined by the
Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State;
(ii) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly
engaged in, any transaction or series of transactions involving deceptive
practices or corruption and the Government of Venezuela or projects or
programs administered by the Government of Venezuela, or to be an
immediate adult family member of such a person;
(iii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material,
or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of,
any activity or transaction described in subsection (a)(ii) of this section,
or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursu-
ant to this order; or
(iv) 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.
(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) 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
date of this order.