The Chavista regime and the Spanish oil firm Repsol attempt to promote “new cooperation agreements”, reported the state broadcaster VTV, which a couple of minutes earlier confirmed photos of the Bolivarian chief Nicolás Maduro accompanied by the worldwide managing director for exploration and manufacturing of the Spanish multinational, José Carlos Vicente Bravo, and the pinnacle of the enterprise unit, Luis Antonio García Sánchez, to start a gathering.
The proximity between the corporate and the Venezuelan dictatorship comes towards the backdrop of the controversial departure of opposition chief Edmundo González Urrutia from Venezuela, who was pressured into exile and came about in Spain after very controversial negotiations within the nation's embassy in Caracas. For analysts, the departure of the dissident chief It strengthened Maduro and weakened the opposition, which acquired the information with monumental frustration.
In line with the photographs of the oil agreements, the Vice President and Minister of the Area, Delcy Rodríguez, and the pinnacle of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Héctor Obregón, additionally attended the assembly.
In line with VTV, the “collaboration” between the Venezuelan authorities and Repsol “strengthens its main place within the international vitality market” of the nation.
Regardless of the scandal surrounding allegations of apparent electoral fraud on July 28, Maduro has repeated “the decision to all buyers on this planet” to seal vital alliances”, together with within the petrochemical and gasoline sectors.
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, throughout a gathering with the Worldwide Government Director for Exploration and Manufacturing of the Spanish multinational within the Caribbean nation, José Carlos Vicente Bravo, this Monday in Caracas (Venezuela). Picture EFEThe diary The Nationwide He recalled that Delcy Rodríguez met with the director of the oil firm's enterprise unit on September 13. The oil minister stated that Venezuela “continues to advance its vitality cooperation plans and alliances with corporations that belief and make investments on this planet's first oil reserve, reminiscent of Repsol.”
The assembly got here two days after the president of Parliament, the Chavista Jorge Rodríguez, requested to arrange a decision calling for the “speedy severance of all relations” with Spain, together with industrial relations, after Congress in Madrid voted to acknowledge González Urrutia as president-elect of Venezuela. The legislative debate on the severance of relations with Spain, initially scheduled for final Thursday, has now been postponed as a consequence of “issues on the parliamentary agenda” with out specifying a date.
The agreements
Final December, the Maduro authorities and Repsol signed an settlement amending the Phrases and Situations joint operations on this South American nation.
The Framework Settlement for the Administration of the Petroquiriquire Blended Firm establishes “the basics that may enhance the conduct of the crude oil manufacturing actions” of the combined firm. through which Repsol has a 40% stake.
In line with estimates by impartial oil operators, Petroquiriquire presently produces about 20,000 barrels of oil per day and 40 million cubic ft of gasoline.
The settlement goals to increase crude oil manufacturing, PDVSA reported on the time.
The assembly between Maduro and Repsol leaders came about two weeks after González's go to to Spain tense relations between Madrid and Caracasto the purpose that Jorge Rodríguez, President of the Nationwide Meeting of Venezuela and an in depth collaborator of Maduro, demanded on September 11 that “all diplomatic relations, all industrial relations be instantly severed.”
“Let all of the representatives of the Spanish authorities delegation go right here and we’ll deliver our personal,” harassed Rodríguez, additionally head of Maduro's presidential marketing campaign, in a speech to the unicameral Congress, through which he demanded: “Every little thing industrial. Actions of Spanish corporations can be stopped instantly.”However the Maduro authorities appears to be appearing in the other way to this proposal.
The Nationwide Meeting, with an amazing pro-government majority, introduced final week that it will postpone the talk to formally ask the ruler to sever ties, citing agenda causes. No date has been introduced to return to the difficulty.