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"The country believes in me, they believe in the law because I wrote that. There is a great country that has renewed hope, that repudiates the sanctions and demands that they be lifted.

My word goes and my life goes in the Anti-Blockade Law

.

"

Nicolás Maduro is strongly committed to the law that was presented yesterday in the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) surrounded by controversy and under suspicion.

A

"totalitarian and undemocratic"

regulation

, according to constitutionalists, that the 'son of Chávez' himself claims to have drafted to face the sanctions and re-boost the economy and that he also wants to impose urgently, despite knowing that

in January he will have a Parliament at your service after the 6-D elections.

Since its irruption before public opinion and after being drafted in secret in the ANC,

the Anti-Blockade Law has raised the alarm among opponents, experts and allies of Maduro

.

And they have their reasons: the 'people's president' wants to concentrate more powers to act on the country's resources and to annul the most uncomfortable laws.

More powers for those who already have superpowers

, a kind of revolutionary version of Louis XIV and "the state is me", but in the shadows of the Venezuelan tragedy.

For the constitutionalist

Juan Raffalli

, even the right to information remains up in the air, since this law would grant confidentiality to government documents.

With the new law, the Executive will be able to act in secret.

"It is an anti-right law, the very denial of the rule of law.

The head of state can de-apply legal norms, decide which law makes him uncomfortable to de-apply it,"

explains Raffalli.

On this occasion, criticism is not only coming from the opposition.

"It is a serious setback and does not protect Venezuelans,"

warned the Communist Party.

Even grassroots movements of Chavismo have protested in repudiation of the imposition of a law with a hidden agenda, which they fear violates the Bolivarian Constitution of

Hugo Chávez

.

Despite having been imposed in 2017 to officially draft a new Constitution, the ANC did not fulfill such a mission, dedicating itself body and soul to lashing out at Parliament and opponents, in addition to unconstitutionally assuming their functions.

At the last minute

Maduro has decided that the Constituent Assembly leave a "legacy" to his people, despite the illegal nature of such action.

"It is a joke and if Maduro wrote it, we cannot hope for less," Juan Guaidó, the president in charge, ironized yesterday.

"It is a project that essentially contradicts the Constitution itself.

The authoritarian character of the Government is strengthened.

It is practically privatizing the assets of the Republic under a cloak of little transparency and a lot of discretion," said Provea, a human rights NGO.

Economic experts also foresee that the Bolivarian Government will use the new law for covert privatizations and for the creation of financial mechanisms in national and international markets, without limits of indebtedness and without caring about the pressure against its international assets.

For

Luis Vicente León

, president of Datanálisis, the Anti-Blockade Law is also an instrument for the campaign ahead of the December 6 elections (parliamentary elections not recognized by the opposition and by Western and regional democracies).

"They know that the majority of Venezuelans blame Maduro for the crisis, but they also believe that the blockade does not produce changes, amplifies the crisis and affects their lives.

The Government thus tries to dilute its responsibility and blame third parties,"

says the political scientist. Lion.

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