American sanctions generate “disturbances in the flow of oil supply to the world market as well as serious economic damage and suffering to the Venezuelan people,” Quevedo stressed on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, ahead of a ministerial panel meeting of top OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers.
The Venezuelan economy has been under extreme pressure as the White House continues its effort to place opposition leader Juan Guaido in power instead of elected President Nicolas Maduro. Keeping ‘all option’ open to instigate regime change, the US has been systematically choking the country’s economy by targeting banking and other strategic industry sectors, concentrating their efforts on cutting oil revenues which account for about 98 percent of the Bolivarian Republic’s exports.
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Quevedo, the head of its state-owned oil giant, PDVSA, was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department last week together with four other officials for their ties to President Maduro. “We are intent on going after those facilitating Maduro’s corruption and predation, including by sanctioning the President of PDVSA and others diverting assets that rightfully belong to the people of Venezuela,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.
Amid ongoing social economic and political instability, Caracas continues to diversify its customer base, turning in particular to India as well as other nations who recognize Maduro as the legitimate leader of the country. In a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Alexander Novak, on Sunday, Quevedo also stressed the “importance of maintaining a respectful relationship with the Russian Federation… to maintain the stability of the oil market.”
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