Waiting for what will happen on the coming Monday, August 18 at the Citgo auction, PDVSA dismissed aspire a repair after more than two decades of what they consider an oil holocaust. They alert that they are not betting on an eventual liquidation of Citgo and that it is unfeasible that the company settled in US territory covers fuel demands in Venezuela
For Compensate the thousands of workers who were fired from Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), the Petroamigos group led by lawyer Leroy Garrett intends to get a fiduciary fund similar to that of the relatives of the victims of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 in the United States.
This was stated by the Law Professional in the edition of this Tuesday, August 12, Conversation of the Rebelde Investiga (ARI) Alliance formed by SuchWhich, Runrunes and The whistle.
In addition to Garrett, who claims to defend the rights of 23 thousand PDVSA thrown officials during the Chavista administration, the former deputy of the National Assembly and co -defendant in the Citgo case, Jorge Alejandro Rodríguez, was also in the weekly space.
The exparliamentary told the directors Luis Blanco (Runrunes), Víctor Amaya (SuchWhich) and César Batiz (The whistle) that the demand filed by him, the unionist Iván Freites and the president of The NationalMiguel Henrique Otero, seeks to cover the shortcomings of those harmed by the PDVSA Persecution Policy from 2002 to the present.
“We are talking about around 26 thousand people,” he said.
Leroy Garrett emphasized that PDVSA extrabajadores are not betting on an eventual liquidation of Citgo, a scenario that could be defined the coming Monday, August 18 through an auction.
“The liquidation of Citgo is a product of a quarter of a century of abuse, flagrant non -observance and facts committed by the Government of Venezuela,” said the lawyer.
Garrett said that the Petroamigos group has become a disruption factor for the possible sale of Citgo. «We have shown that PDVSA was used as an instrument of power to pursue us. We do not want to fight with the other creditors of Citgo, or with those who are on the wave of the 2020 ″ bonds.
While Rodríguez pointed out that the demand in the Federal Courts of the United States is not only to compensate for the thousands of dismissals of PDVSA. «Miguel Henrique Otero demands for all the percussion that the National suffered, even to the preachers ».
The exparliamentary reported that the demand for workplace harassment was introduced in September 2023 by Freites.
«There was denial of the Right of Labor and Violation of Human Rights. Freites is fired for accompanying María Corina Machado in the Amuay refinery. Subsequently, Otero adhered to a dozen plaintiffs, two of them were fired at Pito by Hugo Chávez, ”he said.
Rodríguez said that the eventual creation of a trust has as its sole purpose tax planning. «Because if that former PDVSA worker resides in the United States receives an amount, the treasury stays with 34%. In Europe, retention is zero ».
The once deputy said that in a hypothetical scenario each former oil employee could receive the amount of $ 100,000.
He assured that the sanctions of the Office of Foreign Goods Control (OFAC) have nothing to do with hypothetical payments to third parties. «This is a legitimately approved debt ».
Garrett pointed out that PDVSA extrabajadores have the right to claim their compensation because they have suffered confiscation of their assets. «In this case there are connotations of international and human law. From the group of 23 thousand people thrown from PDVSA there are an average of three people killed daily ».
The dispute with Medina
Contrary to what Horacio Medina, president of the PDVSA AD HOC Board in Conversation On Monday, August 11, Garrett said that he does have the right to exercise law in the United States and represent more than 20 thousand people.
«I am not a cutting lawyer, I am in this process as a pro law, which means that I can defend myself by my own means in a trial. International treaties say that groups that have suffered abuses to human rights can be invoked in their defense by any person, if so, they would have already taken us out of court, ”he said.
Like Rodríguez, Garrett said he was not charging for representing the victims of what they consider an oil holocaust.
«Those who have Medina do charge a lot of money. There is a campaign from the people who have kidnapped the representation of PDVSA abroad to say that I am not a lawyer in the United States. I am a certified international lawyer, ”he said.
*Also read: the conversation | Horacio Medina: “With a political change Citgo can be rescued”
Rodríguez said that since August 2023, the PDVSA ad hoc Board began a discredit campaign to point them out of extortion. «We accuse Medina de Wash money and weigh that we lost the case we will continue with the appeal.
The former deputy said that to solve the dispute it would be enough for Medina to sign a convention document with the aggrieved “and in two weeks all workers are charging, even those of Garrett.”
Garrett described the eventual sale of Citgo as controversial. «Their performance (PDVSA ad hoc) has been to try to carry out an efficient sale, which meets all the steps. Their nature is commercial, that of us labor. No one knows what will happen at the auction of August 18 ».
Getting up to what Medina said in the previous conversation, Garrett said he considered it unfeasible that Citgo takes the internal gasoline needs in Venezuela.
«Citgo is designed as a domestic supplier in the United States, asserting that is demagogy. The opposition in Venezuela is divided into two toletes, the collaborationist to which Medina belongs and the other that is silent, ”he said.
The Petroamigos spokesperson said that PDVSA extrabajadores are not claiming a alms or a gift. «They are material, physical and mental damage that are admissible within the United States, where it had to come to sue because in Venezuela there are no conditions ».
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*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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