After the intentions expressed by several countries, including Paraguay and El Salvador, to negotiate the sale of Venezuelan crude, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, asserted that Paraguay, through its oil company Petropar, has a debt with Pdvsa of 300 million dollars. “Will they believe that we are going to send them oil and they are not going to pay us what they owe us?” he asked.
He described the Paraguayan claims as shameful, a country that always maintained that “here in Venezuela there was a dictatorship and described us as illegitimate, they belonged to the Lima Group.” He said that these countries have reduced their ability to buy oil in other ways, due to the blockade imposed on Russia after the conflict with Ukraine.
The parliamentarian stressed that “this rapprochement is due to the fact that they know that Venezuela continues to have the largest oil reserves in the world.”
A delegation of Paraguayan parliamentarians is expected to come to Venezuela to meet with their counterparts to try to lobby and achieve the resumption of fuel supplies from Venezuela to Paraguay.
The South American nation broke diplomatic relations with the Bolivarian nation in 2019.
