{"id":3927,"date":"2023-07-31T13:49:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T11:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2023-07-31T13:49:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T11:49:52","slug":"us-to-steal-oil-company-venezuelan-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=3927","title":{"rendered":"US to steal oil company &#8211; Venezuelan officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Venezuelan National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez has denounced the forced auction of Venezuela&#8217;s state-owned CITGO Petroleum, which is set to begin in October.<\/p>\n<p>CITGO is an oil company valued at more than $8 billion, with more than 10,000 gas stations in the US. It is said to generate more than $1 billion in profits annually.<\/p>\n<p>So by this auction, CITGO is to be sold to an American-Israeli firm whose general manager is linked to opposition politician Juan Guaido, according to Rodriguez. Venezuelan authorities see it as a takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the sale of CITGO is a plan by Guaido and former US President Donald Trump, and Rodriguez has evidence of this.<\/p>\n<p>Control of the company passed to the opposition as a result of sanctions that the US imposed on Venezuela in 2019. Immediately after, the US Treasury Department accepted a license under which the opposition can not only manage the company but also put its shares and assets up for sale.<\/p>\n<p>And now with this auction, the sale could actually take place, according to Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>President Nicolas Maduro earlier called this an attempt to steal the property of the Venezuelan people.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez has denounced the forced auction of Venezuela&#8217;s state-owned CITGO Petroleum, which is set to begin in October. CITGO is an oil company valued at more than $8 billion, with more than 10,000 gas stations in the US. It is said to generate more than $1 billion in profits annually. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}