The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez (left) and the president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader (right). Photo: National Assembly of Venezuela/Dominican Today.
The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela Deputy Jorge Rodríguez denounced the US government for reneging on its promise to oblige the Dominican Republic to repay its $350 million debt to Venezuela.
On Thursday, September 12, Rodríguez stated that in the Doha agreement signed by the United States and Venezuela, the Biden administration had committed to oblige the Dominican Republic to pay the debt it has with Venezuela in spite of the Dominican president’s refusal to recognize his country’s financial commitments to Venezuela.
Rodriguez shared an image of the agreement on his Instagram account, highlighting the commitment made by the US, despite the fact that Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader refuses to recognize the debt.
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“The president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, denies the debt his country has with Venezuela. If so, how is it that his masters, when they signed the Doha agreement with us, committed to make the Dominican government pay us?” Rodríguez questioned.
In the memorandum, the US expressed its intention to “issue specific licenses to facilitate the payment of the PetroCaribe debt of Haiti, Belize and the Dominican Republic to Venezuelan entities and the transactions associated with the Central Bank of Venezuela.”
The licenses are necessary because the US government sanctions all institutions of the Venezuelan State.
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Luis Abinader’s servility to the US
The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, condemned the Dominican president’s servility to the United States, and demanded that he pay the $350,212,925.48 that his country owes Venezuela for the purchase of oil through the PetroCaribe program.
“Your shameful surrender to the US government in no way erases that debt,” the Venezuelan vice president wrote on her Telegram channel. “Get your act together and PAY Venezuela without delay. All your tantrums smear the identity of the Dominican people, a sister nation of our people. Pay now.”
The minister of the Interior, Citizen Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, lamented that the Dominican people have “a criminal as president.”
“Recently I mentioned a Dominican citizen who heads a gang of swindlers in the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader,” Cabello said during his TV program Con EL Mazo Dando on Wednesday, Septment 11. “He is now the president of that country, but he is the head of a gang, and when I saw how this government behaves with Venezuela, I reminded him of the $350 million debt of his country with Venezuela, which he refuses to pay.”
He added that the Dominican president is trying to pretend that his country has no financial commitments with Venezuela, “but anyway, the poor people have a criminal as president.”
In July of this year, Venezuela expelled diplomats from the Dominican Republic in response to the Dominican Republic’s government attempts to interfere in the Venezuelan presidential elections.
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