Published at: 23/04/2024 08:59 PM

This Tuesday, April 23, the Foreign Minister of the Republic, Yván Gil, provided a chronology of the unilateral coercive measures against the Venezuelan economy, promoted by US imperialism, which began with the executive order signed in 2015 by the then President of the United States, Barack Obama.

This is how Gil recalled, in his account on the social network X, the aggressions of the United States against the country. In that regard, he noted that it was “in March 2015, Executive Order 13692 (Obama Decree) lays the basis for the unilateral coercive measures against the Venezuelan economy imposed in the following years.”

“In April 2017, opposition leader Julio Borges sent letters to international banks urging them not to work with the country's public banks, warning of possible “risks” to their reputation,” he said.

In another message, he indicated that “between May and June 2017, Julio Borges is on a 10-day tour of the United States and Europe to ask for sanctions against PDVSA and Venezuela's public finances.”

He added that during the month of August 2017, “the Donald Trump administration imposes sanctions against PDVSA, including the blocking of transactions in international financial markets and the prohibition of issuing or renegotiating new debt.”

Gil continues with the sequence of events and highlighted that, “through Executive Order 19850, in November 2018, the United States prevents operations in the Venezuelan gold sector by blocking the transactions of the company Minerven.”

These aggressions, he stressed, escalate when, at the beginning of 2019, “the State Department established a total blockade of the Venezuelan oil sector, prohibiting US companies from operating in the country. It freezes Venezuelan assets, including CITGO, PDVSA's subsidiary in Houston, Texas.”

“In August 2019, Washington extended the oil blockade to all sectors of the Venezuelan economy and confiscated Venezuelan assets in U.S. territory, including bank accounts and CITGO. Soon after, a Delaware judge begins a process for the CITGO auction,” he said.

The foreign minister indicated that already in the course of February and March 2020, "the United States threatens international gas and oil companies with secondary (extraterritorial) sanctions if they continue to trade with Venezuela.”

He also argued that “in an act of arrogance, between the years 2020 and 2021, the U.S. government seized ships carrying Iranian gasoline that were coming to Venezuela and banned the exchange of Venezuelan oil for fuel, food and medicine.”

“In mid-2021, while the Venezuelan Government was reaching agreements to purchase vaccines from Russia, Cuba and China, the opposition demanded that the international community block Venezuela from accessing vaccines and other medical supplies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic,” he said.

Mazo News Team