In an act before hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, convened by the Bolivarian Socialist Central of Workers of the City, Countryside and Fishing and the United Socialist Party, the president described the “undignified resolution” as theft, which is a direct message from surrender, he narrowed.

He stressed they decided to hand over Citgo to a group of unknown people, supposedly the leadership of the last National Assembly, which no longer exists in Venezuela, people who, he said, “none of us know”, live abroad and fled like rats in their moment.

Maduro affirmed that the US measure is a mockery and a slap in the face of the international conference held in Bogotá, Colombia, last week with the presence of 20 nations from Latin America, Europe, North America and Africa, and which was convened by President Gustavo Petro. .

He pointed out that, in that meeting to help Venezuela, almost unanimously, the participating countries asked the United States to lift all sanctions on the Bolivarian Republic.

The head of state said that it is a “blatant robbery” of a company estimated at more than eight billion dollars, with more than 10,000 gasoline pumps in the northern country, and that reports more than one billion dollars a year in income.

He recalled that Citgo has not reported profits to the country for at least four years as a result of the kidnapping to which former President Donald Trump (2017-2020) subjected it on May 1.

On International Workers’ Day, Maduro remarked, the United States Government makes this reprehensible, despicable decision against the people of Venezuela and its sovereignty, and called on everyone to decisively reject it in the streets.

He expressed that this is the battle that we must wage for the truth and called all this opposition “of looting and robbery” against the properties of the Bolivarian Republic as accomplices.

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