Exiles asked Guaidó to appoint Citgo's board of directors in the United States

January 15, 2019 11:11
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Updated January 15, 2019 at 11:27

The organization of the Venezuelan political persecutors in exile (Veppex) on Tuesday asked Juan Guaidó, as president of the National Assembly and in charge of the Presidency of the Republic, to appoint a board of directors of Citgo, a subsidiary of the Petrolios de Venezuela state (PDVSA), in the United States.

In this way, he considered the group in exile, the resources coming from this company would not be wasted by the gang of criminals who are "usurping" power in Venezuela, referring to Nicolás Maduro.

Veppex said in his statement that Citgo's revenues could be used for a transitional government to operate efficiently to save the constitutional thread and restore peace to the Venezuelan people.

In this same vein, Veppex said that it is up to the national executive, in particular to the president of the republic, to appoint the board of directors of this company (Citgo), which belongs to the Venezuelans.

The exiled group has declared that it supports the calls and decisions of Venezuela's interim president Juan Guaidó, on the condition that they benefit the Venezuelan people's feeling of freedom.

Veppex's request comes after about 20 former Ibero-American heads of state and government recognized Guaidó as president in charge of Venezuela Monday, days after Maduro took over a second government on January 10 after being re-elected in a marked election of fraudulent and in which most of the opposition did not participate.

Citgo is one of the main sources of exchange for the Venezuelan state, which suffers from a severe economic crisis and suffers from sources of liquidity. It also has a combined capacity of 749,000 barrels of crude per day, which place it as the sixth largest company in the US, says the company on its website.

The oil company, whose three refineries in the United States receive a large part of Venezuelan crude oil, is, however, involved in a legal dispute that could result in its auction being able to pay a debt of $ 1.4 billion with the Canadian Crystallex mining company contracted by Venezuela when the country's authorities expropriated the Las Cristinas mine in 2008.