Venezuela: Washington confirms it has allowed Juan Guaidó to access and control public funds of the Maduro government – 01/29/2019

United States will allow Venezuelan opposition Executive control fund of Nicolás Maduro who are in accounts held by the Federal Reserve Bank or any other insured entity, announced Tuesday the US State Department.

One day after the sanction of the national oil company PDVSA, Venezuela's main source of revenue, Washington offered another economic gesture to Juan Guaidó, whom the Donald Trump government recognizes as the legitimate president of the South American country since his self-proclamation. last week. .

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The state department said in a statement that its director, Mike Pompeo, had authorized Guaidó on Jan. 25. "receive and control" the property of the Government or the Central Bank of Venezuela in US financial institutions, in order to help the "legitimate" administration "to" protect these badets for the benefit of the Venezuelan people ".

"We urge other governments to recognize interim President Juan Guaidó and take similar measures to protect Venezuela's heritage against the theft of the corrupt Maduro regime," the US State Department added in a statement signed by his spokesman, Robert Palladino. and published this Tuesday.

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The Chavez regime has accused the United States of being ingested in a coup with its support for Guaidó and, according to Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, the sanctions at the same time have been PDVSA constitutes "additional evidence".

"They have provided the world with concrete and irrefutable evidence on the sole and true purpose of this coup attempt in Venezuela: oil," he complained on Twitter.

Already Sunday, a few hours before he sanctions PDVSA, Senator Marco Rubio (head of US strategy against Maduro) warned that US authorities had transferred control of several accounts of the Venezuelan state under the jurisdiction of Washington. Guaidó

Rubio had not explained exactly which accounts were affected.

Source: dpa