La Casa Blanca afirma que la nacionalización petrolera de Venezuela fue un "robo" a EE.UU.
La Casa Blanca afirmó este miércoles que la nacionalización de la industria petrolera venezolana en 1976 fue “el mayor robo” de riqueza y propiedad estadounidense, en defensa de la decisión del presidente Donald Trump de ordenar un bloqueo total a los buques petroleros sancionados que operen con Venezuela
TL;DR
- The White House referred to Venezuela's 1976 oil industry nationalization as "the greatest theft" of U.S. wealth and property.
- This statement justifies President Trump's order to completely block sanctioned oil tankers operating with Venezuela.
- The U.S. claims that American effort created Venezuela's oil industry and that expropriated assets funded terrorism and drugs.
- Venezuela nationalized its oil industry on January 1, 1976, assigning exploration and exploitation rights to the state company Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa).
- In 2007, Hugo Chávez modified rules, making transnational companies minority partners in Pdvsa or forcing them to leave.
- Trump declared Maduro's government a terrorist organization and ordered a blockade on U.S.-sanctioned tankers entering or leaving Venezuela.
- The U.S. has also been destroying drug-laden vessels in the Caribbean and threatens attacks within Venezuelan territory.
- Maduro's government denies drug trafficking ties and has called Washington's actions against Venezuelan oil "theft."