Xinhua
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, p. 22
Caracas. Venezuela lost 642 billion dollars of its GDP and 232 billion dollars of its oil production in just five years, due to the impact of US sanctions, indicated yesterday the Venezuelan vice president, Delcy Rodríguez.
More than 947 unilateral coercive measures have been issued against Venezuela, all aimed at suffocating the economydenounced the vice president during her participation in the World Anti-Fascist Parliamentary Forum, which ended yesterday in Caracas with the participation of legislators from more than 70 countries.
Venezuela has been defined by the Pentagon as a geostrategic objective to control and take for its energy reservesRodriguez added.
He explained that 91 percent of the sanctioned countries are energy producers and have the largest global energy reserves.
He wants our resources, accuses Delcy Rodríguez
Behind these blockades and criminal economic aggressions against the people there is a determined and clear policy of seizing resources. of the planet’s energy producers, he stressed.
He added that the implementation of unilateral sanctions It is a global policy conceived from the hegemonism of the global North against the global South.
As of today, there are 37,433 unilateral coercive measures in the world, having their effect on entire populations, massively violating human rights.denounced Rodríguez.