UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

Case No. 21-cv-23103-BLOOM/Otazo-Reyes

CASA EXPRESS CORP, as Trustee

of Casa Express Trust,

Judgement Creditor,

v. 

BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA,

 Judgment Debtor. 

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PARTIAL DEFAULT FINAL JUDGMENT

THIS CAUSE is before the Court upon Plaintiff Casa Express Corp’s (“Casa”) Motion 

for Default Final Judgment Against Impleaded Defendant Alejandro Andrade Cedeno and 

Judgment Debtor Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. ECF No. [149] (“Motion”). Pursuant to

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 58, the Court enters PARTIAL DEFAULT FINAL 

JUDGMENT in favor of Casa and against Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 

Accordingly, it is ORDERED AND ADJUDGED as follows:

1. The following declaratory judgment is entered in favor of the Plaintiff pursuant to 

28 U.S.C. § 2201: 

a. Plaintiff established that the fiscal agency agreements (“FAAs”), which govern the 

debt securities that form the basis of Plaintiff’s underlying judgment against Venezuela, contain a 

provision entitled “Waiver of Immunity” that Venezuela expressly adopted in the FAAs. It

provides: 

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To the extent that the Issuer [Venezuela] or any of its revenues, assets or properties 

shall be entitled . . . with respect to any suit, action or proceeding at any time

brought solely for the purpose of enforcing or executing any Related Judgment in 

any jurisdiction in which any Specified Court or Other Court is located, to any 

immunity from suit, from the jurisdiction of any such court, from attachment prior 

to judgment, from attachment in aid of execution of judgment, from execution of a 

judgment or from any other legal or judicial process or remedy, and to the extent 

that in any such jurisdiction there shall be attributed such an immunity, the Issuer 

irrevocably agrees not to claim and irrevocably waives such immunity to the fullest 

extent permitted by the laws of such jurisdiction (including, without limitation, the 

Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 of the United States) . . . . 

ECF No. [60-24] § 14(d) (emphasis added); ECF No. [60-25] § 14(d) (same). 

b. Plaintiff established that the District Court for the Southern District of New York

interpreted the “Waiver of Immunity” provisions in the underlying action against Venezuela. The

District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that Venezuela “expressly waived its

sovereign immunity” in the FAAs. Casa Express Corp. as Tr. of Casa Express Tr. v. Bolivarian

Republic of Venezuela, 492 F. Supp. 3d 222, 229 (S.D.N.Y. 2020) (“In the fiscal agency

agreements governing the bonds at issue in these actions, Defendant expressly waived its sovereign 

immunity”) (citing FAAs at § 14). 

c. Plaintiff established that the eight real properties1 that are the subject of this 

proceeding are in the United States.

d. The Court reserves jurisdiction to award any attorneys’ fees and costs that may

accrue in this proceeding to Plaintiff against Venezuela after a final disposition on the merits of

the case. Fla. Stat. § 56.29(8). 

1 See ECF No. [60] at Statement of Facts ¶ 29 (listing the eight real properties).

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DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers at Miami, Florida, on July 17, 2023.

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BETH BLOOM

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Copies to: 

Counsel of Record

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

c/o Consulate of Venezuela

7 East 51st Street

New York, NY 10022

PRO SE

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