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89–011 2019

116th Congress, 1st Session – – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 116–19 

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY 

WITH RESPECT TO VENEZUELA 

MESSAGE 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

NOTIFICATION THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT 

TO THE SITUATION IN VENEZUELA THAT WAS DECLARED IN 

EXECUTIVE ORDER 13692 OF MARCH 8, 2015, IS TO CONTINUE 

IN EFFECT BEYOND MARCH 8, 2019, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 

1622(d); PUBLIC LAW 94–412, SEC. 202(d); (90 STAT. 1257) 

MARCH 5, 2019.—Message and accompanying papers referred to the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed 


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To the Congress of the United States: 

Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 

1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, within 90 days before the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. In accordance with this 

provision, I have sent to the Federal Register for publication the enclosed notice stating that the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13692 of March 8, 2015, with respect to the situation 

in Venezuela, is to continue in effect beyond March 8, 2019. 

The situation in Venezuela continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the 

United States. For this reason, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared in Executive 

Order 13692 with respect to the situation in Venezuela. 

DONALD J. TRUMP. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, March 5, 2019. 


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NOTICE

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO

VENEZUELA

On March 8, 2015, the President issued Executive Order 13692, 

declaring a national emergency with respect to the situation in 

Venezuela based on 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 government corruption. 

On August 24, 2017, I issued Executive Order 13808 to take additional steps, with respect to the national emergency declared in 

Executive Order 13692, to address serious abuses of human rights 

and fundamental freedoms; the deepening humanitarian crisis in 

Venezuela; the establishment of an illegitimate Constituent Assembly, which usurped the power of the democratically elected National Assembly and other branches of the Government of Venezuela; rampant public corruption; and ongoing repression and persecution of, and violence toward, the political opposition. 

On March 19, 2018, I issued Executive Order 13827 to take additional steps, with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13692, to address actions taken by the Maduro regime to attempt to circumvent United States sanctions by issuing 

a digital currency in a process that Venezuela’s democratically 

elected National Assembly denounced as unlawful. 

On May 21, 2018, I issued Executive Order 13835 to take additional steps, with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13692, to address actions of the Maduro regime, including endemic economic mismanagement and public corruption at 

the expense of the Venezuelan people and their prosperity, and repression of the political opposition; attempts to undermine democratic order by holding snap elections that were neither free nor 

fair; and the deepening of the humanitarian and public health crisis in Venezuela. 

On November 1, 2018, I issued Executive Order 13850 to take 

additional steps, with respect to the national emergency declared 

in Executive Order 13692, to address actions by the Maduro regime 

and associated persons to plunder Venezuela’s wealth for their own 

corrupt purposes; degrade Venezuela’s infrastructure and natural 

environment through economic mismanagement and confiscatory 

mining and industrial practices; and catalyze a regional migration 

crisis by neglecting the basic needs of the Venezuelan people. 

On January 25, 2019, I issued Executive Order 13857 to take additional steps, with respect to the national emergency declared in 


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Executive Order 13692, to address actions by persons affiliated 

with the illegitimate Maduro regime, including human rights violations and abuses in response to anti-Maduro protests; arbitrary arrest and detention of anti-Maduro protestors; curtailment of press 

freedom; harassment of political opponents; and continued attempts to undermine the Interim President of Venezuela and undermine the National Assembly, the only legitimate branch of government duly elected by the Venezuelan people, and to prevent the 

Interim President and the National Assembly from exercising legitimate authority in Venezuela. 

The circumstances described in Executive Order 13692, and subsequent Executive Orders issued with respect to Venezuela, have 

not improved and they continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the 

United States. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the 

National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 

1 year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13692. 

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress. 

DONALD J. TRUMP. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, March 5, 2019. 

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