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US Sanctions Mexican Cos. Helping Venezuelan Oil

(Bloomberg, 18.Jun.2020) — The U.S. Treasury Department levied sanctions on Mexican trading company Libre Abordo SA de CV for buying Venezuelan oil via oil-for-humanitarian-aid agreements [more…]

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US Sanctions Four Firms For Transporting Venezuelan Oil

(Aljazeera, 2.Jun.2020) — The United States Treasury Department on Tuesday said it had sanctioned four shipping firms for transporting Venezuelan oil, the latest escalation in [more…]

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Latin America and the Caribbean Mexico Venezuela

Libre Abordo Announces Bankruptcy

(Reuters, 31.May.2020) — Mexico-based company Libre Abordo said on Sunday it was bankrupt and that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had terminated an oil-for-food agreement that [more…]

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FBI Probes Firms Over Venezuela Oil Trading

(Reuters, 13.May.2020) — The FBI is probing several Mexican and European companies allegedly involved in trading Venezuelan oil as it gathers information for a U.S. [more…]

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US Seeks To Investigate Mexico Oil-For-Food Pact

(Reuters, 29.Apr.2020) — The U.S. State Department, the Treasury Department and the U.S. Embassy in Mexico are investigating at least two Mexican firms involved in [more…]

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Libre Abordo To Take Up To 15mn Bbls Of Venezuelan Oil

(Reuters, 24.Mar.2020) — Mexico’s Libre Abordo and a related company plan to take some 15 million barrels of Venezuelan crude as part of a first [more…]