Chancellor Gil recalls “one of the most unprecedented acts of judicial piracy in modern history” (+CITGO)

Seven years after the criminal oil embargo imposed by the United States (USA) against Venezuela, the People's Power Minister for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, criticized the betrayal of the extremist opposition to strangle the economy of the Bolivarian nation.

“On January 28, 2019, one of the most unprecedented acts of robbery, criminality and judicial piracy in modern history began: the United States Government imposed an oil embargo on Venezuela with the objective of suffocating its economy,” Gil recalled on his Telegram channel.

He noted that that day also “a network of sanctions and a judicial system at the service of corporate interests began to seize CITGO, the largest Venezuelan asset abroad, and distribute its shares among vulture funds, energy corporations and creditors.”

In this regard, he referred to the process being carried out in the United States for the illegal sale of CITGO, “which is now in its final stage, due to the betrayal of an extremist sector of the Venezuelan opposition, which called for economic strangulation”, as well as the theft of the oil subsidiary “and of everything that, by sovereignty, belongs to the Venezuelan people.”