Deputy Chávez: Theft of CITGO by the US demonstrates the validity of the blockade against the country
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Published at: 10/01/2024 06:29 PM
The deputy to the National Assembly (AN) Julio Chávez asserted that the robbery carried out by the United States of the company CITGO demonstrates the full validity of the criminal blockade of the US empire against Venezuela.
He argued that the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court of Justice to reject the review of the ruling allows the Venezuelan oil company CITGO to auction.
In this regard, in the program Coffee in the Morning, broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión, he specified that Venezuela has more than 22 billion dollars held in North American, European, Asian banks and various multilateral organizations.
He mentioned the sanctions promoted by the decree issued by the former President of the United States, Barack Obama and which Donald Trump deepened and that since then, more than 900 unilateral and coercive measures have been generated.
He explained that according to a report presented by the Deputy Minister of Anti-Blockade Policies of Venezuela, William Castillo, on the CITGO corruption scheme, the company became, for the “interim government” and the North American government, the justification and small box to be able to financially sustain this cycle of corruption.
Chávez also stressed that the only reason why Juan Guaidó proclaimed himself in 2019 and the term of office of the illegitimate National Assembly in 2015 was extended, is because the United States “needed to recognize someone, in this case an illegitimate authority, who would endorse and justify the systematic theft of the Venezuelan asset that represents the oil company”, ignoring the legitimate Government of the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro.
He also denounced that “this illegitimate act against the assets of the Venezuelan State violates everything agreed and signed in the Barbados Agreement.”
He stressed that Venezuela has not been able to recover its assets, since the United States, through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, pressures private banks to withhold the nation's resources.
On the other hand, Chávez, who is the president of the Special Commission to Investigate Crimes against Venezuelan Migrants Abroad of the AN, reported that he is proposing the creation of a high-level commission to address the issue of migration.
He reiterated the complaint that Venezuelan migration has become a business for some members of the Venezuelan opposition and that they have used the use of some Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), managing to raise large sums of money, but such resources did not reach the hands of migrants.
He considered that the accompaniment of the return of compatriots should continue with the program Back to the Homeland, promoted by the Bolivarian Government.
Mazo News Team