Live tracker · July 22, 2026 · 315 active designations

OFAC Venezuela SDN — Currently Sanctioned Government & political officials (315)

Every government & political officials on the US Treasury OFAC SDN List under Venezuela-related sanctions programs. Each name links to a permanent profile with biographical data, OFAC program code, and source link.

Source: US Treasury OFAC SDN List Refreshed: twice daily (10am & 5pm Medellín) Programs covered: VENEZUELA, EO 13692, EO 13850, EO 13884

What "government & political officials" means here

Political and judicial officials — Asamblea Nacional Constituyente members, Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) magistrates, electoral council (CNE) officials, governors, mayors, and ministers — designated for undermining democratic governance.

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Military officials (13)
Economic & financial actors (130)
Diplomatic officials (3)
Government & political officials (315) — current view

Why government & political officials are sanctioned

Governance-sector designations sit at the older end of the Venezuela sanctions program. Where the military and economic sectors trace mostly to EO 13850 (the November 2018 gold-sector order) and EO 13884 (the August 2019 blocking order), governance designations reach back to EO 13692, the March 2015 order that first authorized Treasury to block property of Venezuelan officials responsible for human-rights abuse, media censorship, or actions undermining democratic processes or institutions. That is the legal hook for the Asamblea Nacional Constituyente members, Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) magistrates, National Electoral Council (CNE) officials, governors, mayors, and ministers who make up this list -- OFAC is not sanctioning a commercial transaction here, it is sanctioning a governance act.

Because the underlying conduct is political rather than commercial, designations in this sector cluster around dated events more than the other three sectors do: disputed election periods, National Assembly sessions the U.S. and much of the region consider illegitimate, and judicial rulings against opposition figures or candidates. The July 2024 presidential election, whose disputed result the opposition and much of the international community rejected in favor of Edmundo González, produced one such wave of CNE and TSJ-linked designations. For compliance teams, the practical implication is that a governance-sector name's designation date is itself informative -- it usually maps to a specific electoral, legislative, or judicial event rather than an ongoing commercial pattern.

This sector also carries the highest concentration of EO 13692 designations on the full SDN list, which matters for licensing: general licenses built around PdVSA, oil-sector operations, or debt (GL 41, GL 44A, GL 50A, and similar) do not reach EO 13692 designees, whose block traces to human-rights and anti-democratic conduct rather than to Government-of-Venezuela ownership. Screening a governance-sector name off this page is therefore not a substitute for confirming which executive order or orders apply to that specific individual before assuming any general license could ever cover a transaction involving them.

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Why this view exists

OFAC publishes the Venezuela SDN list grouped only by entity type (individuals / entities / vessels / aircraft) and by executive order. Compliance, M&A, and journalist research workflows usually want a sector-pivoted view — "who are the currently-sanctioned military officials?" or "which Venezuelan banks are blocked?" — which neither OFAC nor most trackers offer. We compute the sector for every designation from its OFAC remarks plus a curated overrides table; see the sector overview page for the full methodology.

Verifying these designations

OFAC official Sanctions Search — primary source for live screening
Our search tool — paste any name to see if it's currently designated
Active OFAC General Licenses for Venezuela
What are OFAC sanctions on Venezuela? (plain-English guide)