The United States gave the Chevron oil company until April 3 For “the liquidation” of Operations in Venezuela, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) reported Tuesday.
Following the instructions of President Donald Trump, the Treasury Department ordered the “closing of activities” in the Caribbean country of Chevron, of its “joint companies” with the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela PDVSA or of any company in which the latter possesses “a 50%participation.”
For this purpose, he created the 41A license, which enters into force this Tuesday and revokes the issued in November 2022 by the government of former Democratic president Joe Biden.
The new license, however, imposes Chevron, the only American oil company that operates in Venezuela, a series of restrictions that affect the government of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.
Chevron will not be able to pay “taxes or royalties to the Government of Venezuela”neither dividends to PDVSA, nor to any company in which it possesses, “directly or indirectly, a participation equal to or greater than 50%.”
The sale of oil or oil products “to any jurisdiction other than the United States” and carry out transactions controlled by companies of the Russian Federation are also prohibited.
Finally, and as it is customary, Nor are operations allowed with people sanctioned by Washington.
At the end of February Trump already announced the end of the license that allows Chevron to operate in Venezuela, A slap for the Chavista leader.
The Republican tycoon accuses Maduro, whose re -election does not recognize, of not picking up Venezuelan migrants in an irregular situation to the rhythm “they had agreed.”
Trump, like Biden, supports the exiled Venezuelan opponent Edmundo González Urrutia, who claims the victory in the presidential elections last July and attended his investiture on January 20.