The Executive Vice President of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, expressed Venezuela’s forceful rejection of the theft of the company Citgo Petroleum Corporation (Citgo) instrumentalized by the United States (USA) government in complicity with sectors of the Venezuelan opposition.
“We strongly reject the theft of citgo, instrumentalized by the #USA government, Leopoldo López, Juan Guaidó, Julio Borges and the caste of neo-fascist surnames. “Venezuela will not recognize any type of fraudulent transaction,” Rodríguez pointed out in her account on the X social network.
Likewise, she stressed that the people of Venezuela in unity will defend the assets that rightfully belong to them and that today the United States government and its accomplices intend to take away from them.
“Relentless justice will be applied to those who plotted this dispossession against the Republic,” said the Executive Vice President.
On the X social network, Rodríguez shared the official communiqué from Venezuela rejecting the process of dispossession of the Citgo company, through “a judicial procedure of forced sale of shares clearly contrary to the law.”
Following, the full text of the communiqué:
“The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela strongly rejects the process of dispossession of the Citgo Petroleum Corporation (Citgo) company, which continues to be carried out by the authorities of the United States of America, under the subterfuge of a judicial procedure for the forced sale of actions clearly contrary to law.
Citgo is an important strategic asset of the Venezuelan national oil company PDVSA. Its forced sale constitutes a new episode of the multiform aggression carried out by the institutions of the United States against Venezuela, with the aim of plundering the Venezuelan people of the assets that belong to them, in open transgression of the norms that govern peaceful coexistence between the States and in open compromise with the extremist factors of Venezuelan anti-politics, servile to the orders of Washington.
The Government of Venezuela and PDVSA were excluded from the judicial sale of Citgo and were prevented from defending their rights before US courts. To do this, the US authorities had the complicity of the organized crime group calling itself the “National Assembly of 2015”, led by Juan Guaidó, Leopoldo López, Julio Borges and the surname caste of Venezuelan neo-fascism, who since 2019 have attempted to usurp the institutions and representation of the Republic and its entities abroad.
The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela reiterates that it does not and will not recognize the forced sale of Citgo, which is carried out in flagrant disregard of the economic guarantees, due process and the right to defense guaranteed by any civilized nation.
Likewise, it confirms that it will continue to adopt all the measures at its disposal to avoid the consummation of the definitive dispossession of Citgo, while reserving the exercise of actions against any company or individual that acquires the shares, facilitates the purchase or negotiates with the assets. of Citgo, as well as against those responsible for the dispossession of this asset of great importance for the present and future of Venezuelans.
The Venezuelan people will know how to respond, in great national unity, to reject this brazen theft by the government of the United States of America together with the criminals of Venezuelan extremism.
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