Venezuelan parliament votes to begin impeachment proceedings against Maduro

Sandokan · Oct 12, 2021

Venezuela introduces new currency with 6 fewer zeros (apnews.com)

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and JORGE RUEDAOctober 1, 2021

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A new currency with six fewer zeros debuted Friday in Venezuela, whose currency has been made nearly worthless by years of the world’s worst inflation.

But the new bills were difficult to find in the capital, where consumers’ fears that prices will continue to spiral upward proved to be right.

“Today, I went to the supermarket and everything was marked in dollars,” Lourdes Pórtelo, an office worker, said in a shopping center in the east side of Caracas. “In the end, I couldn’t buy anything, I didn’t have enough money.”

Before the adjustment, the highest denomination was a 1 million bolivar bill that was worth a little less than a quarter as of Thursday. The new currency tops out at 100 bolivars, a little less than $25 — until inflation starts to eat away at that as well.
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This is the third time that the socialist regime has remove ceros from the currency. According to a National Survey of Living Conditions, performed by the Andres Bello Catholic University, 3 out of 4 Venezuelans currently live in extreme poverty. Of the 30 million of Venezuelan, 5 million have left the country, about 17% of the population. The economy of the country is in deep crisis.

Sandokan · Oct 30, 2021

Venezuela’s Crumbling Oil Industry Is An Environmental Time Bomb | OilPrice.com

By Matthew Smith - Oct 21, 2021, 2:00 PM CDT

The collapse of Venezuela’s oil industry could lead to significant environmental consequences.

Oil spills are likely to increase due to a lack of infrastructure investment and maintenance.

A key part of resurrecting Venezuela’s petroleum industry is conducting urgently required maintenance and overhauls on severely corroded industry infrastructure including vital pipelines as well as refineries.

Venezuela’s profound economic and humanitarian crisis fails to attract the headlines it once did, particularly after the U.S. recognized interim president Juan Gauido’s May 2019 uprising failed. While the autocratic Maduro regime’s actions continue to gain some media attention, it appears that the world’s worst modern economic collapse outside of war is no longer the breaking news it once was. This is despite the humanitarian crisis deepening to the point where nearly all Venezuelans live in poverty and the growing regional threat posed by terrorists as well as other non-state armed groups operating in Venezuela’s territory. What many international commentators are failing to acknowledge is the environmental time bomb created by Venezuela’s vast petroleum reserves, which at 304 billion barrels are by far the world’s largest. Two decades of mismanagement, malfeasance, and corruption coupled with ever harsher U.S. sanctions have caused Venezuela’s once-mighty oil industry, which saw the OPEC member become a leading world oil exporter, to implode.
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Because the oil industry is under the control of Maduro regime via de oil company PDVSA, oil spills occurred very frequently by offshore oil drilling, as well as drilling in Lake Maracaibo. The Maduro regime, like king Midas in reverse, everything it touches turn to dust.

Sandokan · Nov 9, 2021

Venezuela Slashes Oil Target, Abandoning Maduro’s Ambitions - Bloomberg

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November 5, 2021

Venezuela’s state oil company slashed its output target by one-third as years of corruption, brain drain and inadequate investment crippled the nation’s energy infrastructure.

PDVSA cut its daily production target to 1 million barrels from a 1.5-million-barrel goal announced in January, according to a company document seen by Bloomberg News and a person with direct knowledge of the plans. In the Orinoco River basin that produces most of the country’s crude, PDVSA lowered its goal to 650,000 barrels from almost 1 million previously.

Stung by years of chronic mismanagement, nationalization efforts that chased off many foreign drillers, and tough sanctions that isolated PDVSA, Venezuela’s socialist government has been forced to revise production goals three times since President Nicolas Maduro set an ambitious 2-million-barrel target in January 2020.
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PDVSA has gone from 3.5 million barrels on a daily basis in the 1990s to only 527,000 barrels in September 2021. Crude output suffered a catastrophic decline of 85%. Venezuela refineries need urgent renovation but lack funds since international oil majors withdrawal left the oil industry underfunded.

Sandokan · Nov 24, 2021

Venezuela’s New Oil Production Target Is Completely Unrealistic (yahoo.com)

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At the start of 2021, Venezuela’s Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami announced that national oil company PDVSA was targeting petroleum production of 1.5 million barrels per day by the end of the year. When he made that statement in March 2021, Venezuela’s national oil company was pumping, according to OPEC, an average of 525,000 barrels of crude oil per day, or a third of that target. A week ago, PDVSA gave a clear indication of just how unrealistic that target was by reducing that daily average production target by roughly a third to one million barrels per day by the end of 2021. There are signs that even the reduced output is beyond the capability of Venezuela’s national oil company. If this ambitious new target were achieved, it would generate considerable income for Maduro’s near-bankrupt regime, as well as a capital-starved PDVSA. That cash could then be directed to urgently required maintenance and to the overhaul of Venezuela’s rapidly deteriorating energy infrastructure. Despite Maduro’s, El Aissami’s, and the PDVSA’s hype, the new numbers are still unrealistic and will not be achieved until critical geopolitical dilemmas are resolved.
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The difficult conditions associated with operating in Venezuela under the Maduro regime, are not only deterring investment but causing major energy companies to abandon the country. Japan’s Inpex exit Venezuela by selling its interest to PDVSA, and Equinor too exited their operation in Venezuela. The Maduro’s regime is facing a financial pressure because of the collapse of Venezuela oil industry. The oil industry is going to burst.

Sandokan · Dec 12, 2021

Venezuela’s Fatal Embrace of Cuba - WSJ

An oil-rich one-time ally of the U.S. has been quietly colonized by a much smaller, poorer neighbor. Now Venezuela is as wrecked and destitute as a country at war.

By Moisés Naim
Dec. 10, 2021 11:00 am ET

In the first half of 2019, Venezuela began to suffer gasoline shortages. This, on its face, was preposterous. The nation had the world’s largest proven oil reserves—its refineries boasted the capacity to supply the country’s needs many times over. Yet drivers up and down the land found themselves waiting days on end in lines outside gas stations, bringing to mind the old joke about how if communists took over the Sahara it would run out of sand.

At the same time, tanker ships were departing from Venezuelan terminals full of oil. They did so in contravention of U.S. sanctions, turning off their satellite tracking devices to avoid detection and heading north-northwest…toward Cuba. This image tells the fundamental story of Venezuela’s multilevel disaster. Even amid crippling gas shortages that left Venezuela in economic free fall, Caracas’s priorities were clear: Cuba’s needs come first. Always.
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Outstanding essay by Moisés Naim, Venezuela minister of trade and industry in the 1990s. Cubazuela is a term used to describes the colonization of Venezuela, a much larger country with infinitely more natural resources, by the Castroit regime, a smaller country with few natural resources. Communism has never work before and never will. It always brings poverty, death, and at the end collapse. Progressive/ Regressives had been supporters of leftwing dictators and Communism all along.

Sandokan · Dec 27, 2021

About 4,500 Cuban soldiers in nine battalions led by 46 high-ranking Cuban military officers of Cuba’s Interior Ministry providing Maduro’s security. The meaning of this is that Maduro has become a figurehead of the Castroit regime. Maduro is between a rock and a hard place. Maduro, whose security force is headed by Cubans, could meet the same destiny that Allende in Chile whose security team was headed by Antonio De La Guardia, a coronel of the regime Minister of the Interior, who "help" Allende to commit suicide.

Sandokan · Jan 11, 2022

Venezuela experiences blackouts in capital and at least 15 states | Reuters

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CARACAS, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Areas of Venezuela's capital Caracas and at least 15 states across the country suffered blackouts on Friday which authorities attributed to an attack on the electrical system.

From 2 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. local time (6 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. GMT) blackouts took place in Caracas and 15 of the country's 23 states though power was largely restored by 11 a.m. local time, Reuters journalists said.

Nestor Reverol, Vice President of Public Works and Services and Minister of Electrical Energy, said in a statement on state television: "There has been a new attack on the national electricity system, specifically in El Guri."

El Guri is the site of a reservoir and dam in the south of the country which generates a large part of Venezuela's electricity.
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Venezuelans in different parts of the country have complained for years about constant power outages lasting hours and even days. So far the Maduro regime has not provide a solution to the problem, only blaming it on sabotage, but unable to proved. No detainees, no names of the saboteurs and no physical evidence.

Sandokan · Jan 27, 2022

Venezuela: The decline of an oil giant in crisis - The Economic Times (indiatimes.com)

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AFP * Last update: Jan 19, 2022

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By 2008, the country was producing 3.2 million barrels of oil a day. Just 13 years later, it can only muster 500,000 to one million barrels per day amid a grinding economic crisis marked by years of recession and hyperinflation.

Leaks, rusted pipes, pieces of broken equipment scattered about and staircases leading nowhere: Lake Maracaibo's oil NSE 3.45 % field is a metaphor for Venezuela's once-flourishing petroleum industry that is now on its knees.

More than a century ago, the Maracaibo basin in northwestern Zulia state was the birthplace of a business that transformed the country into one of the world's 10 largest oil producers and a Latin American economic heavyweight.

By 2008, the country was producing 3.2 million barrels of oil a day.

Just 13 years later, it can only muster 500,000 to one million barrels per day amid a grinding economic crisis marked by years of recession and hyperinflation. Venezuela's gross domestic product per capita is now similar to that of Haiti.

Venezuela oil production is in a tailspin. Years of unpaid bills and mismanagement have cut its access to specialized drilling equipment and foreign investment. The oil industry is going to burst. According to the Central Bank, in 2021 inflation hit 686%. The Venezuelan people is paying for the mismanaging of the regime. The Maduro regime, like king Midas in reverse, everything it touches turn to dust.

Sandokan · Feb 14, 2022

UN Reviews Venezuela’s Poor Human Rights Record | Human Rights Watch (hrw.org)

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Recommendations Should Focus on Judicial Independence, Free Elections, End to Repression

Tamara Taraciuk Broner | January 24, 2022

On January 25, United Nations Human Rights Council members will review Venezuela’s abysmal human rights record during its Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The review presents an opportunity to expose Venezuela’s authorities’ blatant disregard for fundamental rights and outline essential recommendations it needs to adopt to comply with its international obligations.

Under the UPR process, each country’s human rights record is subject to a peer review by other states every four years. Venezuela has failed to implement most recommendations it received following UPR examinations in 2011 and 2016.

Ahead of this year’s review, Human Rights Watch has submitted a summary of human rights conditions in Venezuela with recommendations to restore the rule of law and implement reforms to protect rights. The Nicolás Maduro regime’s brutal repression continues, with security forces and armed pro-government groups committing egregious abuses. Authorities harass and prosecute independent journalists and civil society organizations working to address the country’s ongoing human rights and humanitarian emergency, which has left millions of Venezuelans unable to access basic health care and adequate nutrition and rendered the country ill-equipped to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. More than 6 million Venezuelans have fled the country, generating the largest migration crisis in Latin America.
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United Nations Human Rights Council members will review the human right crisis in Venezuela cause by the Maduro regime, related to extrajudicial executions, excessive use of force and unlawful killings by the security forces of people expressing criticism of government policies, including political activists, journalists and health workers. The UNPR has established there were reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed in Venezuela since 2014 and that Maduro and senior military and ministerial figures ordered or contributed to the crimes.

Sandokan · Feb 27, 2022

Is Venezuela Lying About Its Oil Output? (yahoo.com)

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A surprise jump in Venezuela’s crude oil output at the end of 2021 caught industry analysts by surprise. According to data provided by Caracas to OPEC the crisis-riven country pumped an average of 871,000 barrels per day during December 2021. That number, while considerably lower than the one million barrels per day announced by national oil company PDVSA as its end of 2021 target, still represents noteworthy growth of Venezuela’s crude oil output when compared to 2020. December 2021’s oil output was 3% greater than a month earlier and nearly double the 441,000 barrels per day pumped for December 2020. While the spike in PDVSA’s oil production during the final months of 2021 is impressive Venezuela still only pumped an average of 636,000 barrels per day, which according to data published by OPEC is only 12% higher than 2020. It is also important to note that despite the impressive production increases for November and December 2021 Venezuela’s oil output is well below the 1998 record of 3.5 million barrels daily. There are signs that PDVSA is struggling to boost oil output further, despite copious assistance from Iran, with industry experts speculating that Venezuela’s national oil company has reached capacity.

Since 2016, when PDVSA ceased publishing production, the veracity of the data provided by the Maduro regime has been under considerable speculation. There is a great disparity between the crude oil production volumes reported by PDVSA and OPEC’s secondary sources. Production volumes data from secondary sources indicate Venezuela only pumped 681,000 barrels per day during December 2021, which is 190,000 barrels or 22% lower than the numbers provided by PDVSA. The Maduro regime is lying about its oil output.

Sandokan · Mar 16, 2022

Biden's Outreach to Maduro Alarms Venezuelan Ex-Pats, Experts Alike | Newsmax.com

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By Maxwell Newman | Wednesday, 16 March 2022

The Biden’s administration overtures to Venezuela and its President Nicholas Maduro seeking more oil production as a means to blunt the impact of increasing gasoline prices amplified by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has angered Venezuelan ex-patriots and stumped pundits.

The reaction has been most noticeable in South Florida and has political observers suggesting the move could made the Republican state even more red.

The negotiations have received vocal bipartisan criticism, with Sens. Rubio (R-Fla.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), joining other groups strongly opposing negotiations between the Biden Administration and Maduro’s regime.

“If all politics is local, I think there is probably fewer things that President Biden and the Democrats could do to drive South Florida voters into the arms of the Republicans,” Florida International University Professor Dr. Jerry Haar told CBS Miami.
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Notwithstanding the political fallout from buying oil from the Maduro regime, the regime PDVSA does not produce the required oil output to sell to the U.S. Instead, it would buy Russian oil and reselect to the U.S., making the ban on Russian oil basically infected, and at the same time making a profit.

Sandokan · Apr 4, 2022

Venezuela’s army collaborated with Colombian rebel groups: HRW | FARC News | Al Jazeera

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Human Rights Watch says ‘dramatic increase’ in violence taking place along remote stretch of Colombia-Venezuela border.

28 Mar 2022

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Venezuelan soldiers of conducting joint operations with Colombian rebels in Venezuela’s Apure state earlier this year, amid a “dramatic increase” in violence along a remote and often lawless stretch of the Colombia-Venezuela border.

In a report published on Monday, the advocacy group said that in January a truce ended between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and another rebel organization known as the Joint Eastern Command.

That led to clashes, abductions and assassinations of civilians that forced more than 3,300 people to flee their homes in Apure, as well as the displacement of more than 3,800 others in the Colombian province of Arauca, just across the border from Venezuela.

HRW said it visited Arauca in February and spoke to humanitarian workers and refugees from Apure, who said that they witnessed how members of Venezuela’s National Guard entered villages with the ELN rebels and took people away in trucks.

Witnesses told the group that those who were snatched from their homes were accused of collaborating with the Joint Eastern Command, which is led by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) dissidents who refused to sign a 2016 peace deal with Bogota.
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Colombia military is larger and better equip than Venezuela. Cease fire with the rebels do not last. Colombia government shall sent troops to Venezuela’s Apure state and clean out the guerillas and Venezuelan soldiers that have been conducting joint operations along the border and have affected the people living in the Colombian province of Arauca, just across the border from Venezuela. This will send a strong message to Maduro regime.

Sandokan · Apr 19, 2022

Worsening Electricity Cuts Hit Western Venezuelan State | World News | US News

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By Manaure Quintero and Anggy Polanco

SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) - Electricity cuts are worsening in the Venezuelan border state of Tachira, residents said, complicating daily life and hitting attempts to revive the economy amid loosened currency controls.

The South American country's public utility infrastructure has been deteriorating for more than a decade, but worsened in 2019 when there were three major national black-outs.

Border states like western Tachira - which are on the end of national transmission lines - tend to suffer the worst of cuts.

Residents of the state capital San Cristobal said electricity was often off for 16 hours a day, hitting shoe and textile factories which had tried to resume production after President Nicolas Maduro loosened currency controls three years ago.
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The economic collapse brought about by the Maduro regime, is reflected by the worsening electricity cuts. The public utility infrastructure has been deteriorating for more than a decade, since 2019 has worsened. Venezuela has sickened into economic and political turmoil under Maduro regime, as oil outflow has gone in a tailspin.

Sandokan · May 6, 2022

Venezuela opposition rejects talks on US sanctions | Argus Media

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Venezuela's opposition aligned with Juan Guaido will continue to demand significant political reforms before supporting any US plans to lift oil sanctions on the South American country as a way to ease supply concerns.

"The US cannot just walk back foreign policy [sanctions], just like that," an oil and energy adviser to Venezuelan politician Juan Guaido told Argus. The group considers the 2018 re-election of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro fraudulent, a position backed by the US. The opposition believe lifting the sanctions would only support keeping Maduro in power, although they said earlier this year they could be open to some gradual easing.

Guaido's allies would condition any deal on free, fair and verifiable elections, the adviser said.

Maduro's vice president Delcy Rodriguez earlier this week said that dialogue efforts are being "reformatted," but declined to elaborate.

The US has not even confirmed if lifting oil sanctions is on the table, but US diplomats visited Caracas on 5 March for the first meeting with President Nicolas Maduro since President Joe Biden took office.
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Opposition leader Juan Guaido shall continue to demand political reforms before the Biden administration lift oil sanctions.

Sandokan · May 21, 2022

Biden administration begins easing restrictions on Venezuelan oil - The Washington Post

By Samantha Schmidt, Karen DeYoung and Anthony Faiola

Updated May 17, 2022 at 7:54 p.m. EDT | Published May 17, 2022

The Biden administration has eased restrictions on the main U.S. oil company with assets in Venezuela in a gesture that senior administration officials said was intended to support talks between the government of President Nicolás Maduro and the U.S.-backed opposition.

The Treasury Department on Tuesday issued a “narrow” license to Chevron that will allow the company to begin previously prohibited talks with Venezuela’s socialist government over a possible restart of production that had ceased under U.S. sanctions, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity under rules imposed by the White House.

The license is the first in what could be a series of steps toward oil sanctions relief, depending on the Maduro government’s cooperation, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. If the government returns to negotiations with the opposition, aimed at guaranteeing free and fair elections in 2024, the United States could permit Chevron to begin shipping equipment to Venezuela. If the talks are successful, Chevron could be allowed to extract and sell Venezuelan oil.
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This is a betrayal by the Biden administration to Juan Guaidó, leader of the opposition, and the Venezuelan people. This license to Chevron is the first steps toward removing oil sanctions. The administration will be trading with the Maduro regime, an allied of Russia, who will be sending Russian oil to the U.S., since PDVSA oil production remain low

Sandokan · Jun 26, 2022

Iran-Venezuela Partnership Threatens U.S. | National Review

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By JORGE JRAISSATI

June 25, 2022 6:30 AM

This authoritarian partnership has the potential to fundamentally threaten the region’s stability.

Since the fall of 2020, I have been writing about the growing relationship between the Venezuelan regime of Nicolás Maduro and Iran’s theocracy — formerly headed by Hassan Rouhani, now by Ebrahim Raisi.

At the time, I explained how the Iranians were helping the Maduro regime circumvent American energy sanctions, and how in exchange, they were asking for greater control over Venezuela’s oil industry and other of its key strategic economic sectors.

This month, two episodes have illustrated the evolution of this anti-American and authoritarian relationship. These cases also confirm that the United States’ national security — and the region’s security as a whole — is diminished by Iran’s greater leverage and influence in Venezuela.
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Recently, Iran reported that this is their third shipment to Venezuela in the last month of light crude oil . U.S. sanctions prohibit this kind of transaction with the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA. Clearly, the Biden administration is not enforcing the sanctions. China too violated the U.S. sanctions by purchasing Iranian oil processed at PDVSA refineries. In other words, the administration would do nothing. Soon the administration will drop the sanctions and by oil from Venezuela imported from Iran, trading oil for freedom.

cwb01 · Jul 3, 2022

Sandokan said:
Venezuela, a socialist country, cannot provide medical care of its own people. There are about 10,000 Cubans healthcare professionals in Venezuela, which sends the Castroit regime around 92,000 barrels of oil a day worth about US$3.2 billion a year in exchange for their services. Seems that the Cubans doctors cannot solve the medical care crisis. Many have fled to Colombia due to widespread shortages and social unrest in Venezuela.

Venezuela is not a Socialist country. It is a communist country. I am not sure why you call it socialist.

Grand Mal · Jul 3, 2022

cwb01 said:
Venezuela is not a Socialist country. It is a communist country. I am not sure why you call it socialist.

Do you realize you're trying to bicker over a post that's more than 5 years old?

Sandokan · Jul 14, 2022

Resumption of deliveries to Europe boosts Venezuela oil exports -data | Reuters

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By Marianna Parraga and Mircely Guanipa

July 6, 2022

July 5 (Reuters) - The first Venezuelan crude cargoes sent to Europe in two years helped lift the OPEC nation's oil exports by 61% last month after a series of setbacks earlier in the year, tanker tracking data and documents from state-run PDVSA showed.

Italy's Eni (ENI.MI) and Spain Repsol (REP.MC) started taking Venezuelan crude after receiving a green light from the U.S. State Department. The U.S. decision, a move to help Europe compensate for the loss of Russian oil following its invasion of Ukraine, also marks a step toward better relations between Caracas and Washington.

The oil-for-debt exchanges, viewed by analysts as a sign of the easing of Washington's sanctions on the South American nation, happened as U.S. officials visited Caracas to discuss the release of jailed Americans. That visit failed to secure their release. read more
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The Biden administration has allowed already several shipments of Iran light crude oil to Venezuela, no withstanding the fact that U.S. sanctions prohibit these transactions with Venezuela oil company PDVSA. It also approved Venezuelan crude oil to be send to Europe, also prohibited by U.S. sanctions. Now it is in conversation with the Maduro regime to resume oil imports from Venezuela. Biden administration is throwing a lifeline to Maduro regime, abandoning millions of Venezuelans who are suffering under that regime, trading oil for freedom betraying the people of Venezuela.

Sandokan · Jul 29, 2022

U.S. fears Venezuela increasing efforts to entrap Americans | Miami Herald

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BY MICHAEL WILNER AND ANTONIO MARIA DELGADO UPDATED JULY 20, 2022 2:20 PM

In early March, after senior U.S. officials made a rare visit to Caracas, the Biden administration announced a breakthrough:. Two Americans detained in Venezuela were free and flying home. Direct talks with the government of Nicolás Maduro seemed to be paying off.

But U.S. diplomats and intelligence officials were alarmed when, days later, two more Americans were quietly apprehended by Venezuelan authorities, seemingly replenishing Maduro’s stock of political prisoners. The detentions raised fears within the Biden administration that the Maduro regime “is working more aggressively to increase its leverage of detained Americans,” one senior U.S. official told McClatchy and the Miami Herald.

At the time, White House officials said they had simply rewarded Maduro with an in-person meeting in exchange for the freedom of the two Americans. But modest sanctions relief on Venezuela’s state-run oil company followed months later, as senior Biden officials encouraged Maduro and Venezuela’s democratic opposition to resume negotiations in Mexico City over the country’s political future.
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Biden administration rewarded Maduro regime with modest sanctions relief on Venezuela’s state-run oil, after it released two Americans prisoners accused of spying. What the regime does next, it apprehended two more Americans and accused them of spaying. The regime will used them as bargaining ships to obtain the remove of the sanctions or the release Alex Saab. You not cut deals with the regime, just double down the economic pressure.

Sandokan · Aug 15, 2022

Venezuela: Oil Production Declines as Shipments to Europe Suspended | Venezuelanalysis.com

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Iran began to ramp up lighter crude supplies to boost Venezuela’s refineries and free domestic oil for blending and export.

Caracas, August 12, 2022 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela’s oil output and exports have receded following a series of operational setbacks while recently renewed shipments to Europe have been reportedly halted.

According to the latest Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) report, Venezuela's July output stood at 661,000 barrels per day (bpd), a slide from June’s 710,000 bpd, as measured by secondary sources. It is the lowest mark this year. For its part, Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA reported 629,000 bpd, below the previous month’s 727,000 bpd.

The Caribbean country’s oil exports have also declined with 460,323 bpd of crude and refined products shipped in July, a significant drop from the 630,500 bpd in June, reported Reuters. Most shipments were bound for China, the main destination for Venezuelan oil.
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Since 2016, when PDVSA ceased publishing production, the veracity of the data provided by the Maduro regime has been under considerable speculation. The Maduro regime is lying about its oil output. The Venezuelan people is paying for the mismanaging of the regime. The Maduro regime, like king Midas in reverse, everything it touches turn to dust.

Sandokan · Aug 28, 2022

Every time that oil operations are affected by mechanical disruptions, the regime alleged has been cause by a terrorist attack. The regime has been unable to prove it, No detainees, no names of the saboteurs and no physical evidence.

Sandokan · Sep 13, 2022

Venezuela refugee crisis near Ukraine’s in scale but not aid, group says - The Washington Post

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By Bryan Pietsch and Hari Raj
September 4, 2022

The exodus from Venezuela has grown to the point that its refugee numbers are now close to those displaced by the conflict in Ukraine — but the European crisis has drawn disproportionately more financial support, according to an advocacy group.

The Venezuelan refugee crisis has for years been among the world’s largest but has recently ballooned, with more than 6.8 million refugees and migrants leaving the country since 2015 to avoid political chaos and economic collapse, according to an Aug. 5 estimate by R4V, an interagency platform led by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration. The tally of refugees from Ukraine was more than 7 million people as of Aug. 30, according to UNHCR data.

But while the numbers of displaced people are similar, the financial support for them has been disparate, the advocacy group Refugees International said, noting that the $1.79 billion Venezuelan regional migrant response plan was less than 14 percent funded as of Sept. 1. Meanwhile, the $1.85 billion regional response plan for Ukraine was 62 percent funded as of Aug. 25.
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More than 6.8 million refugees have left Venezuela since 2015. That represent 23% of the total population of 30 million, a staggering figurer. According to the article at least 753,000 Venezuelans have left since November of last year. This refugee crisis started in 2015 when the regime began starving the people into submission.

Sandokan · Sep 28, 2022

Venezuelan Narco-State Controls 25% of Global Trafficking: It Attacks U.S. with Drugs - El American

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A report by the Center for a Secure Free Society reveals that the Cartel of the Suns, led by the regime of Nicolas Maduro, now controls 25% of the global cocaine trade thanks to the help of Cuba, Russia, Iran and China.

The report published on Thursday, September 22nd, states that “years of training in counterintelligence by Cuba, Russia, Iran, and China, gives members of the Maduro regime advanced ability to connect illicit drug networks.”
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Under the Maduro regime, Venezuela has become a socialist narco-state with 25% of the global market today. The regime is dumping drugs into the U.S. that is killing numerous American youngsters.

Sandokan · Oct 16, 2022

UN Investigators Accuse Venezuela of Crimes Against Humanity to Maintain Power (voanews.com)

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September 26, 2022

Lisa Schlein

GENEVA — U.N. investigators say Venezuela's military and civilian intelligence agencies play a key role in repressing dissent through violent means to keep President Nicolas Maduro in power.

In its latest report to the U.N. Human Rights Council, the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela says the two agencies are part of a well-coordinated structure created to retain Maduro's grip on power by keeping the civilian population in check through a policy of fear and intimidation.

It says many of the brutal tactics employed by the military intelligence service, known as DGCIM (the Directorate General of Military Counterintelligence) and the civilian intelligence agency, SEBIN (Bolivarian National Intelligence Service) could amount to crimes against humanity.

The report documents grave human rights violations committed by both agencies, including allegations of torture and other ill-treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, arbitrary detention, and enforced disappearance.

Chair of the Fact-finding mission, Marta Valinas said the mission has evidence proving these crimes were not committed by individuals who had no connection with these agencies.
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What you can expect, the Maduro regime DGCIM and SEBIN are an extension of the Castroist regime repressive apparatus Minister of the Interior (MINIT) and State Security Police (SSP). According to the UN Human Rights Council report (El aparato represor de Cuba, involucrado en crímenes de lesa humanidad en Venezuela | DIARIO DE CUBA)

Venezuelan parliament votes to begin impeachment proceedings against Maduro

Russian warship, go f*** yourself!

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