CARACAS, Jan 25 (Reuters) – Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido, who has proclaimed himself interim president with U.S. support, is considering a request for funds from international institutions including the IMF to finance his interim government, two sources said.
Guaido’s team is planning to name a new board to state-run oil firm PDVSA’s U.S. unit Citgo Petroleum and a new representative to the Inter-American Development Bank, two sources familiar with the discussions said.
Guaido does not yet have control of the state’s functions, which remain loyal to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (Reporting by Corina Pons and Brian Ellsworth Editing by Angus Berwick)
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/venezuela-politics-guaido/venezuelas-guaido-considering-request-for-funds-from-imf-sources-idUSL1N1ZP0TH
Month: January 2019
Refiner Citgo prepares to fend off Venezuela’s opposition government | Reuters
* Maduro says to defend U.S. refiner Citgo as Venezuelan property
* Citgo board retreats to Bahamas to plan legal moves
* Citgo strategy to avoid U.S. attempts to divert revenues
* PDVSA unit Citgo is biggest U.S. importer of Venezuelan crude
By Marianna Parraga and Corina Pons
MEXICO CITY/CARACAS, Jan 25 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s most important foreign asset, its $10 billion U.S. refining arm Citgo Petroleum, is hunkering down to arm itself with a legal strategy to block efforts for its board to be removed and its revenues diverted to an opposition government, sources close to the talks said.
Will Iran Become the Next Venezuela?
Will Iran Become the Next Venezuela?
— Read on www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/will_iran_become_the_next_venezuela.html
Israel said it was, and whatever Bibi wants, Bolton gives.
When US Lifted Ban on Crude Oil Exports in 2015, CNN Said Exports Wouldn’t Skyrocket Anytime Soon [2018]
By Chris Agee
March 29, 2018 at 9:50am
A 2015 decision to reverse a decades-old ban on exporting U.S. crude oil has coincided with a steep spike in global shipments not predicted by some experts at the time. For 40 years beginning in 1975, the majority of domestic oil production was barred from exportation under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, a reaction meant to give the U.S. some control over its supply amid shortages and drastically increased prices. Though some oil was exempted by the U.S. Department of Commerce during those years, exports remained low until Congress reversed the act just over 2 years ago. In the wake of that December 2015 decision, a number of analysts predicted the move would have a limited impact on the shipment of oil from the U.S. to ports around the world. A CNN article published the following month cited several of those opinions.
Trump Recognition of Rival Venezuelan Government Will Set Off a Diplomatic Avalanche
January 24th, 2019
By Wayne Madsen
The Trump administration’s January 23 recognition of Venezuela’s National Assembly leader, Juan Guaidó, as the president of Venezuela, in opposition to the “de facto” and “de jure” president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, threatens an avalanche of nations recognizing leaders of various political factions in countries around the world as legitimate governments. In reaction to Trump’s move, Maduro severed diplomatic relations with Washington and ordered all US embassy personnel in Caracas to leave the country within 72-hours. Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly declared a caretaker government as a rival to the Maduro government with Guaidó as the interim president.
Exclusive: Kremlin-linked contractors help guard Venezuela’s Maduro – sources
Private military contractors who do secret missions for Russia flew into Venezuela in the past few days to beef up security for President Nicolas Maduro in the face of U.S.-backed opposition protests, according to two people close to them.
— Read on mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1PJ22M
US Backs Coup in Oil-Rich Venezuela, Right-Wing Opposition Plans Mass Privatization and Hyper-Capitalism
The US has effectively declared a coup in Venezuela. Trump recognized unelected right-wing opposition leader Juan Guaidó as new “president,” who plans mass privatization and neoliberal capitalist policies.
By Ben Norton
The United States has effectively declared a political coup d’état in Venezuela, from abroad. Trump announced on January 23 that the US recognizes the unelected, illegitimate right-wing opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the supposed new “interim president” of Venezuela’s supposed new “government.”
Venezuela’s US-backed opposition has pledged to carry out a mass privatization of state assets and to implement harsh neoliberal capitalist policies. The opposition-controlled legislatures declared in its “transition” plans that the “centralized model of controls of the economy will be replaced by a model of freedom and market based on the right of each Venezuelan to work under the guarantees of property rights and freedom of enterprise.”
— Read on grayzoneproject.com/2019/01/23/us-coup-oil-venezuela-right-wing-opposition-privatization-capitalism/
Venezuela Newslinks 24-25 January 2019 – The New Dark Age
25 January 2019 — The New Dark Age
Gustavo Borges Chronicles 24/1/19
https://williambowles.info/2019/01/25/gustavo-borges-chronicles-24-1-19/
Over 70 Experts Call for US to Stop Interfering in Venezuela
Noam Chomsky, Alfred de Zayas, Sujatha Fernandes, Boots Riley, John Pilger, Vijay Prashad and many others oppose US interventionism in Venezuela. The statement is worth the read.
— Read on venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14249
Trump’s Sanctions Make Economic Recovery in Venezuela Nearly Impossible [2017]
The new financial embargo will worsen shortages, inflict suffering, and restrict Venezuela’s policy options.
— Read on www.thenation.com/article/trumps-sanctions-make-economic-recovery-in-venezuela-nearly-impossible/
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