LatAmNRG Venezuela Briefs: Oil Worker March, Maduro Denounces Citgo Grab

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.Apr.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to a planned oil and gas sector march slated for 1 May 2019 in Venezuela and Nicolás Maduro denouncing what he calls an illegal appropriation of Citgo by the Venezuelan opposition under the watchful gaze of the US government.

FUTPV Head Wills Rangel Says Petroleum Workers To March On May 1st

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 24.Apr.2019) — Venezuelan oil and gas sector workers plan to march on 1 May 2019 to show their commitment to the Venezuelan revolution, announced FUTPV General Secretary Wills Rangel.

“We’re aware of the efforts President Nicolás Maduro is making to confront the economic blockade against our country and this May 1st we’re going to hold a march to tell the world that the workers are still committed to the Revolution,” said Rangel, also President of the Bolivarian Socialist Workers Federation (CBST), in an official statement published 24 April 2019 by Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA.

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Maduro Denounces Citgo Appropriation, Blames Venezuelan Opposition

(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 23.Apr.2019) — Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro denounced what he called the illegal appropriation of $1.3 billion belonging to Citgo Petroleum, and which he claims comes from an illegal debt to finance terrorist plans against the Venezuelan people.

“This robbery is being carried out before the complacent gaze of the US government, which took over, with the complicity of the leadership of the Venezuelan right, CITGO,” Maduro said in an official statement published 23 April 2019 by Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA.

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