Venezuela repudiates Trump’s interference in the face of illegal sale of CITGO

This Saturday, the Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela repudiated the interference actions promoted by the Donald Trump government in the face of the illegal sale of the Venezuelan state company Citgo Petroleum Corporation, the main subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) located in Houston, Texas, United States. States (USA).

Arreaza, through a statement, flatly denounced the actions of the Trump government, who in complicity with a Venezuelan extremist group have committed transnational crimes in order to appropriate the assets of Venezuela and its entities around the world.

“This sentence in the dying hours of the outgoing Trump government confirms that the international relations of this administration are driven by hatred, looting, revenge and the abuse of power as a criminal exercise of public power,” he said.

The Chancellor, during his statements, described that last Friday the Federal Court for the District of Delaware of the United States of America, decided to initiate the preparatory phases for the sale of the shares of the company PDV Holding, owner of CITGO.

In his opinion, this action is the “distribution of the spoils at the last minute of that government with the complicity of its failed local puppet, to accentuate the revenge against a company that belongs to all Venezuelans,” he declared.

The also Minister of Foreign Affairs, explained that the highest authorities of the Venezuelan Government have timely warned the illegitimate and illicit appropriation of Citgo that has been forged under the instructions of former deputy Juan Guaidó and executed by Mr. José Ignacio Hernández.

“These characters are fugitives from Venezuelan justice for having conceived an unlawful framework to appropriate the assets of the Republic abroad, facilitate the delivery of the assets of the Venezuelan people to foreign powers through a gigantic procedural fraud and violate the Venezuelan constitutional order “Said the chancellor.

It also detailed that the person who acted as false attorney in the trials brought by the Republic before international judicial instances, had and maintains economic ties with the Claimant, Crystallex International Corp. (Crystallex). “He also acted, deliberately with absolute clumsiness and inexperience, vulgarly usurping public functions before the US justice system, invoking a supposed representation that he never stopped to deliver the legitimate interests of Venezuela,” Arreaza said in the statement.

The diplomat alerted the international community of the danger that it represents for foreign investments and companies in the United States of America, and the very serious risk to which their interests are subject to maneuvers of this nature.

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