Diosdado Cabello, first vice president of the PSUV, said that “it is not a coincidence” that Juan Guaidó has gone to the US and then they decide to allow the liquidation of Citgo. He reiterated that the Venezuelan electoral system is the best in the world, for which he questioned those who ask for “credible elections.”
The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), God given hairrejected this Wednesday, May 3, the decision of the United States (USA) not to prevent the Citgo auction to pay the PDVSA 2020 bonds of PDV Holding, a subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela.
From the state of Vargas, where an official act was carried out three years after the so-called “Operation Gideon”, Cabello warned that “it was not a coincidence” that Juan Guaidó, former president of the National Assembly in 2015 and who was head of the interim, He left for the US shortly before the Justice Department made its announcement, according to Reuters.
“And a week before, one of the greatest traitors to the homeland that this land has had, Juan Guaidó, had left Venezuela. Where did he go? He went to the United States and he left to ensure that the sale of Citgo was a reality, that is not a coincidence, it only needed that to finish stealing what belongs to all Venezuelans,” he said.
He insisted that in Venezuela justice will be delivered to all those who attempt against the country.
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The United States will not block a judicial auction of shares in the parent of oil refiner Citgo, Justice Department officials told a federal court, paving the way for a possible seizure by creditors of Venezuela’s most precious foreign asset. , according to reports Reuters.
The US Treasury Department has protected Citgo Petroleum from creditors with claims against Venezuela since 2020, and its change of heart would allow the claims to be resolved through negotiation or through an auction of shares in Citgo parent PDV Holding. Citgo is the sole asset of PDV Holding.
On the other hand, Diosdado Cabello questioned the call of opposition sectors to have a free, transparent and “credible” election process in Venezuela, since he asserted that the country has one of the best electoral systems in the world.
«They arrive and invent that there must be free, transparent, universal, direct and secret elections and then they make it credible. Credible for whom? There is no electoral system more perfect than the electoral system of this country. Those who today demand that there be transparent, clean elections still do not know who was elected president there in the United States,” he warned.
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