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The Venezuelan government and US oil company Chevron signed a deal in Caracas on Friday to resume operations in Venezuela, state broadcaster VTV reported.
“This agreement aims to continue the productive and developmental activities of this energy sector within the framework of our Constitution and Venezuelan legislation governing Venezuelan petroleum activities,” 2017.
He attended the signing ceremony along with representatives of Venezuela’s state-owned oil and gas company PDVSA and Chevron.
April 2023 will mark Chevron’s 100th anniversary in Venezuela, El Aissami said at the event.
The move comes after the Venezuelan government and opposition groups reached an agreement on humanitarian relief and announced last week that they would continue negotiations to resolve the country’s chronic problems. It came after giving Chevron limited permission to reopen. Economic and political crisis.
The U.S. is exploring ways to enable Venezuela to produce and sell more oil on international markets, thereby reducing the world’s dependence on Russia for energy, U.S. officials said in May. told CNN.
A six-month license was granted to Venezuela by the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) last week, but the US can revoke it at any time. Moreover, according to the official, the profits will be used to pay off debts to Chevron, not the Maduro government.
In 2017, OFAC said El Aissami “played a key role in the international drug trade,” according to a news release.
The Treasury said it would “facilitate narcotics shipments from Venezuela to include control of planes departing from Venezuelan air force bases, and (and) narcotics shipments exceeding 1,000 kilograms from Venezuela to Mexico and their final destinations in Mexico.” I have been there on multiple occasions, including on the ground.” America. ”
The ministry also said El Aissami was involved in coordinating drug shipments to Mexico’s violent drug cartel, Los Zetas, and protecting Colombia’s drug lords.
