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.- N.- Petróleos de Venezuela reported, in a statement, that thanks to the Petrocaribe energy cooperation agreement, which reached its 13th anniversary, Venezuela received "as part of the payment of the oil bill, about 4 million tons of food that favored the most vulnerable population. "
" The initiative "played a key role in the fight against the economic war in which the country is confronted, "added the text
.The state oil company, during the 13 years of the integration mechanism," provided 356 million barrels of oil that were the basis of the socio-economic development of the region. "
" Today, PDVSA and the 12 joint ventures are part of Petrocaribe have developed a key energy infrastructure for the region, whose storage capacity is 1 732 000 barrels and can refine up to 70,000 barrel s per day. He said that "the countries have carried out 790 projects in the areas of food, electricity, education, environmental sanitation, public services, housing and health, among others, which have contributed significantly to poverty reduction. "
PDVSA said that Venezuela will continue to" promote Petrocaribe as a strategic priority of its energy policy, based on the principles of solidarity, cooperation and sovereignty, overcoming the aggressions and economic blockade imposed unilaterally by the US government. "
" Petrocaribe has become a platform for partnership for solidarity that helps minimize asymmetries in access to energy resources, promotes the capacity of states to implement sovereign policies aimed at eradicating poverty and improving the quality of life of the po pulation, "he said.
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