The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has demanded on Thursday that the U.S. government lift sanctions against the Latin American country.
«The Venezuelan president insisted that the «aggression» from abroad «is a threat to recolonize» the country.
Maduro, thus, denounced that the oil activity is under persecution «with the aim that Venezuela does not have the resources it should freely receive to invest them in its economy and in the social rights of the people».
«All Venezuelans must unanimously reject imperialist interventionism, foreign interventionism in our homeland», he implored in his annual message to the National Assembly.
The President criticized that the sanctions have been «directed mainly at government agencies, 42 percent, and the oil industry, 18.7 percent, while the private sector has been the target of 7 percent of the measures.
The press office of the Venezuelan Presidency has informed that 927 «unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela» are in force, which would entail a loss of gross income of 232 billion dollars (214 billion euros).
The Presidency, which has assured that these policies constitute a violation of the Human Rights of the people, estimates that, in the last eight years, «extremist sectors have deprived Venezuela of 411 million dollars a day (378 million euros)».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
