CITGO refinery in Lake Charles, Lousiana, USA. Photo: CITGO.
The permanent representative of Venezuela to the United Nations (UN), Samuel Moncada, stated that the auction of CITGO, the Venezuelan refinery in the United States, resulted from the betrayal of a group of Venezuelans linked to the extreme right wing, living in the United States. The auction of Venezuela’s multi-billion dollar assets abroad, the CITGO Refineries belonging to Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), will take place on July 15.
“It is a robbery by the US empire, but the criminals are worried that it will happen before the elections ‘because it would help Maduro.’ This is what the enemies of Venezuela and their local agents confess,” Moncada wrote on social media.
La traición de venezolanos en EEUU va a terminar en el remate de CITGO a empresas privadas el próximo 15 de julio. Es un robo del imperio pero lo que preocupa a los criminales es que ocurra antes de las elecciones “porque ayudaría a Maduro”. Así lo confiesan los enemigos de… pic.twitter.com/iMWM0cbFCa
— Samuel Moncada (@SMoncada_VEN) June 5, 2024
The diplomat’s statement comes after Reuters reported that members of the Venezuelan opposition have held meetings with US government officials and parliamentarians in order to stop the auction of CITGO shares. The auction was previously ordered by a US court to pay CITGO’s debts to creditors.
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The people will hold the opposition accountable for it
The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, said that the Venezuelan people “will hold this gang of criminals fully accountable” for handing over Venezuela’s wealth, assets and patrimony to the US and Europe.
“CITGO is the pathetic example of what the opposition would do if they could take political power in Venezuela. Those who submitted [to the US] will never come back. Never again,” Rodríguez wrote in a post on X.
El pueblo de Venezuela se las cobrará enterita a esta banda de criminales que entregaron las riquezas, activos y patrimonio de Venezuela a EEUU y Europa! CITGO es el patético ejemplo de lo que harían si toman el poder político en Venezuela. LOS ENTREGUISTAS NO VOLVERÁN!!! Más… https://t.co/7TvfrXuUBq
— Delcy Rodríguez (@delcyrodriguezv) June 6, 2024
Venezuela has condemned the sale of CITGO as a plan hatched up by coup-plotter Juan Guaidó and former US President Donald Trump, to steal the Venezuelan asset and divide it between Israel and the United States.
According to Venezuelan deputy minister of Anti-Blockade Policies, William Castillo, “the ‘alter ego’ theory, to collect Venezuela’s debts by seizing PDVSA assets, sustained the opposition’s political operation and was the judicial excuse to strip Venezuela of CITGO in a US court, all as part of Trump’s policy of maximum pressure against Venezuela.”
He explained that the brain behind this operation was José Ignacio Hernández, who, within the fake “interim government” of Guaidó and Leopoldo López, was appointed as attorney general with the stated purpose of “protecting the assets of the country” despite being linked to the Canadian mining company Crystallex, one of the promoters of the CITGO arbitration process against Venezuela.
La teoría del “alter ego”, cobrarse deudas de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela con activos de PDVSA (CITGO) sustentó la operación politica y fue la excusa judicial para despojar a Venezuela de Citgo en un tribunal de EE.UU., todo ello como parte de la política de maxima… pic.twitter.com/ZzFmZSfV32
— William Castillo Bollé (@planwac) February 5, 2024
“This is the most disgusting and sickening robbery committed against a country in history, using a court of another country and the recognition of a non-existent ‘government,’” Castillo added.
Due to the United States’ blockade against Venezuela since 2015, Venezuela has already lost over $800 billion in revenue. Venezuela’s losses are reaching a trillion dollars, as decried recently by the executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), Jorge Arreaza.
(Últimas Noticias) by Victor Lara
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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