This Monday the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, recalled that after the kidnapping of Citgo, the country stopped receiving $900 million per month.
“Since he was kidnapped (citgo) in the days of Donald Trump, they cut off the supply of oil that was produced in Venezuela,” stressed the president while stating that with this kidnapping the country stopped receiving approximately 900 million dollars a month.
Due to this situation, he asked the entire country to support the Law for the Protection of Assets and Rights and Interests of the Republic abroad, whose public consultation is currently being carried out by the National Assembly.
“I support with all my spirit and my strength and I ask for the support of the entire country for this law that the National Assembly to take a step towards the protection of Venezuela’s assets in the world”, emphasized the national president during his Maduro+ program on Monday.
“The Law for the Protection of Assets, Rights and Interests of the Republic and its Entities Abroad, approved by the AN, arises as a response to the dispossessions of which Venezuela has been a victim by the neoliberal governments of the United States and Europe,” he said.
“That ultra-right is responsible for Citgo being robbed from us,” he denounced.
Through General License 42, issued on May 1, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) authorized a sector of the extreme right to arrange or agree on processes related to the debts of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and of the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).
“This government of the United States has tried to give the final blow. Who gives the lunge? To all Venezuelans and Venezuelans ”, she pointed out.
On the other hand, he invited all investors to the country, after highlighting the work that Venezuela is doing to certify what would be the fourth largest gas reserve in the world.
“Welcome to all investors in the world, we have all the gas they need in Europe in Venezuela,” he stressed.
Emergence of de-dollarization of the commercial world
During the program, the Venezuelan president highlighted that, at this time, the de-dollarization of the commercial world, of the financial system, is emerging, after the application of different alternative initiatives to the dollar.
This, after it became known this week that Zimbabwe was launching a gold-based cryptocurrency.
In this sense, President Maduro instructed the Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, to study the initiatives that are emerging in the world for the de-dollarization process.
“While the world advances more towards equilibrium, a basket of currencies will appear, for financial operation,” he stressed.
In this regard, he questioned the political use made by the United States (USA) to sanction different countries, such as Russia, India, China, Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Türkiye, among others.
“New economic powers are emerging, this Zimbabwe initiative is going in that direction, they are adding to a necessary process of de-dollarization of the world system,” he stressed.
In addition, he urged the Executive Cabinet to study the new trends of the Brics and cryptocurrencies.
