Nicolás Maduro to sue the United States after sanctions imposed on oil company PDVSA

January 29, 2019

The Chavez leader has accused Washington of having taken the "illegal path" and of wanting to fly to Venezuela the Citgo company, a subsidiary of PDVSA located on American soil.

The chavist leader Nicolas Maduro announces this Monday that will take lawsuits against the United States after experiencing the sanctions imposed by the country led by Donald Trump against PdvsaVenezuela's oil company and block its revenues from oil exports to its country.

"I have given specific instructions to the president of PDVSA that he initiate political and judicial actions in US and global courts, in order to: defend property and wealth of (its subsidiary) Citgo "badured Maduro on public television.

In addition, accused the Trump government of "Illegal travel" and of "to seek to fly"This company in Venezuela and badured:"We will give the necessary, symmetrical and energetic answer to defend the interests of Venezuela at the time, in the coming hours ".

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"The Citgo company is trying to steal from all Venezuelans and Venezuelans, alert Venezuela, the United States has decided today to take the road to steal the Citgo Venezuela company"Maduro denounced the presidential palace of Miraflores.

For its part, PDVSA President Manuel Quevedo used his Twitter account to denounce the fact that the actions of Donald Trump's administration are a "Theft of the United States Government against the people" and accused the opposition of "try to take charge"From the subsidiary of the oil industry.

The United States has imposed sanctions on the Venezuelan state oil company, increasing pressure on the regime, unknown to the opposition and Washington, as well as to most of the American countries and from Europe.

Measurement orders the blockade of US $ 7,000 million PDVSA badets in the USA. The US authorities have announced that these measures would result in an additional loss of $ 11 billion for the oil company over the next year.