Trump cancels permits for oil companies in Venezuela to pressure Maduro

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The Trump administration cancels a number of permits and licenses that enable Western oil companies to carry out business in Venezuela, because it increases economic and diplomatic pressure on President Nicholas Maduro.

On Sunday, Eni Eni Eni Eni said that the US authorities were notified that it was no longer allowed to pay the gas that results in Venezuela Through the oil supplies he provided to it by PDVSA, the government oil company.

The Italian Energy Company said it will deal with Washington to determine how to continue providing unprotected gas supplies, which are necessary for the local population and receive payment for them.

“Eni is always working in full compliance with the international sanctions frame,” Eni said in a statement.

Global Oil Terminals, a commercial company owned by the charging pole, said that it also received a notification from the United States government that it would have to reduce its licenses to export products from the Latin American nation.

“The company’s licenses must end by May 27, and this should be done on Wednesday in all payments to Venezuela’s entities,” Sargent, a prominent Republican donor, told the Financial Times.

You did not immediately respond to many other companies that have obtained exemptions from the United States government under the leadership of former President Joe Biden, including Spain Ribsol, France Morel & Pro, and India’s reliance immediately on the request for comment.

A US Treasury spokesman declined to comment. A spokesman for the Venezuelan government did not respond to the request for comment.

The suspension of concessions and licenses that enable Western companies to carry out commercial businesses with the government company PDVSA, affiliated to Venezuela, is the latest steps taken by the Trump administration to Maduro pressureThe oath for a third term in January, despite widespread evidence for fraud in the July elections.

Last week, Trump said the United States would take place A 25 percent tariff imposition On all imports from any country that buys oil from Venezuela, a step that can disrupt raw markets and sharply lift goods from China and India.

The announcement of the black market exchange rate in Venezuela, which rose from nearly 90 bolivar to the US dollar on Monday to 102 pm on Friday, is much higher than the official rate of 69 bolivar to the dollar.

In a publication on the social truth, Trump said, “Venezuela has sent on and deceived to the United States, unanimous, tens of thousands of high levels, other criminals, many of them of killers and people of very violent nature,” Trump said.

More than 7.7 million Veneers, approximately a quarter of the population, fled the oppression and economic collapse during the 12 -year Maduro government, with the stability of the majority in other Latin American countries.

The procedure against Eni and international oil stations follow Washington’s decision to cancel the Chevron license to work in Venezuela, despite the severe pressure campaign by the American oil specialization to maintain its existence.

Venezuela 660,000 barrels were exported in a day of crude in the world last year, according to KPLER consultations, an important trade for the country’s economy.

Analysts estimate that exemption licenses, including Chevron and Eni’s licenses, were worth more than $ 4.5 billion last year to the Maduro government. The opposition numbers said that the money was used to finance repression.