• Pressure on the regime: US sanctions the Rosneft subsidiary for its links with Maduro
  • Justice: The National Court charges the owner of Globovisión for the looting of the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA
  • Petroleum: Venezuela collapses its production and is already below one million barrels per day
  • Morodo Case: The judge tracks the "final destination" of Hugo Chavez's payments to Raúl Morodo

"Donald Trump has promised to crush PDVSA [the state oil company] and Venezuela. Who is going to be able to do more, Donald Trump or the working class? " The riddle of Nicolás Maduro preceded Wednesday the declaration of "energy emergency" to ensure, according to the revolutionary chief's harangue, "national energy security" and "to defend PDVSA from imperial attacks".

The "people president" reacted like this after knowing the sanctions imposed by the United States against the subsidiary of the Russian state oil company Rosneft, a conclusive way to recognize the importance of Russians to screw themselves into power. According to the investment bank Torino Capital, based in New York, two thirds of the current Venezuelan production is marketed by Rosneft , which has a profound impact on the cash flow of PDVSA, already very limited due to the inefficiency of its managers.

Said and done, the military high command met to protect PDVSA's oil facilities from a false enemy, since the collapse of the fundamental industry for the country does not come from the imperial north or the opposition, not even from those strange ships invisible that according to Chavismo attack the national electrical system. Venezuela currently produces only 700,000 barrels of oil, when in 2008, in full swing, it exceeded three million barrels. The enemy, although not recognized, is much closer, within the revolution itself.

A curtain of dense military smoke to hide precisely the administrative failure of the military , placed in the presidency of an industry far removed from its virtues for war and repression. When Maduro decided to place General Manuel Quevedo at the head of an industry he did not know, experts warned him, even the most daring predicted the collapse in just two years. Finally, there were 27 months of management, which have taken Venezuela, which has the largest oil reserves on the planet, to its historical minimum : they have lost 1,200,000 barrels in their vertiginous journey to the abyss. At its best, PDVSA obtained 96% of the income for the State .

Maduro also announced the creation of a presidential commission to "transform integrally" PDVSA, similar words to those already used in other crises and with countless plans. At the head of the commission, the almighty Tareck El Aissami, a movement that anticipates that the economic vice president is determined to take command of the financial muscle of the revolution for its internal plans and for its petrodiplomacy.

Caritas Venezuela staff participates in a humanitarian day.

Mismanagement, the flight of their best brains, the implementation of dilapidated projects and corruption have allied, together with the economic deterioration of the country, to burst the hen of black gold eggs . A corruption whose tentacles spread throughout the world, even to Spain. Raúl Morodo, former ambassador of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in Caracas, is accused by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor of diverting 35 million euros from PDVSA to the family business network.

The last to emerge from the sewers of corruption is Raúl Gorrín, the king of Bolivian Chavez businessmen and one of the main frontmen of the great leaders of the revolution. The president of the Globovisión news channel, bought by order of Chavismo to silence criticism and dissent, must appear next week before the National Court as charged in a case of the Venezuelan oil company's plunder.

"Maduro, assume your responsibility, you screwed PDVSA", shot Rafael Ramírez, former Venezuelan oil czar and trusted man of Chávez, today detractor of the call for the Bolivarian propaganda "driver of victories". From his exile in Europe, Ramírez warned that "to militarize more PDVSA under the leadership of an international criminal will finish burying it . " Ramírez refers to El Aissami, one of the most wanted "capos" by the US accused of "international drug trafficking."

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