247 – Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Monday rejected the US government’s decision to hand over Citgo, a subsidiary of state oil company PDVSA, to an opposition sector, calling the decision a “brazen theft”.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who classified the decision as a mockery and a slap in the face at the international conference held in Bogotá, said..
“Today the US government made a decision to hand over the Venezuelan company Citgo to some people from Venezuela the opposition United Platform (…) a humiliating decision, which is a direct message of surrender. They decided to hand over Citgo to a group of people,” he announced during the rally on International Workers Day.
The president emphasized that this decision hands over the US-based Citgo Petroleum to “the board of directors of the last National Assembly, which no longer exists in Venezuela, people whom no one knows, who live abroad.”
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“The US government is making a decision to turn Citgo over to sell it and do whatever it wants,” he said.
In addition, he referred to the international conference on Venezuela held in the Colombian capital, Bogota, on April 25, recalling that representatives of the participating countries demanded the lifting of coercive measures against the South American country.
The Head of State, on behalf of the entire Venezuelan people, expressed his disapproval and “indignant rejection of the theft of Citgo by the United States Government and Venezuela’s Unified Platform”.
He pointed out that Citgo is valued at more than $8 billion and has more than 10,000 gas stations in the United States, “a shameless robbery of a company that annually generates more than $1 billion in profits that accumulate for at least four years without providing profits to the country with the kidnapping of Donald Trump.” .
Moreover, he noted that the US government had taken this condemning decision against the people and sovereignty of Venezuela. “It is the battle we must fight for the truth. Complicit, all this opposition is complicit in the looting and theft of Venezuelan property,” he said.
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