The United States has ordered foreign companies and refineries to shut down with the Maduro regime

The United States has asked oil intermediaries around the world to to further reduce their relations with Venezuela or to face sanctions, even if trade is not prohibited by measures already published by Washingtonsaid three sources close to the question.

The United States imposed new sanctions on the Venezuelan oil industry earlier this year, but Some companies continued to supply the country with fuel from India, Russia and Europe.

Washington is particularly interested in stopping deliveries of gasoline and refined products that Venezuela uses to dilute its heavy crude oil in order to be able to export it.. Sources said that aircraft fuel and diesel would be exempted for humanitarian reasons.

Venezuela is struggling to sell its oil, after the sanctions have reduced sales in the United States, destination of 37% of its oil exports in 2018. Shipments to the United States fell to zero in the week ending March 15, according to government data.

In fact Venezuelan oil production has fallen to a minimum of 69 years 1,354 million barrels a day last year, after years of mismanagement and lack of investment. Production could have fallen to 600,000 barrels a day after the power cuts that hit the country.

The United States has applied dozens of sanctions to officials and former Chavez officials for corruption, drug trafficking, and human rights abuses since 2015, when they declared that Venezuela was a "threat to national security".

But since January 2019, he intensified his economic and diplomatic measures against the Venezuelan regime by ignoring that Nicolás Maduro was the legitimate authority of Venezuela. In fact, the Trump government was the first to recognize Juan Guaidó as interim president of the country.

The warning comes as Russian interference in the South American oil country intensifies, plunged into an unprecedented multidimensional crisis that the Putin government has exploited to become ubiquitous both economically and militarily.