translated from Spanish: Guided asks for international help to stop shipment of Venezuelan crude to Cuba

The head of the Parliament of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, who was proclaimed interim President of the country in January, asked Monday help the international community to halt shipments of oil, making the Government of Nicolás Maduro to Cuba.
“We have decreed no more shipping oil to Cuba, they are not going to follow the money of the people of Venezuela… Pimp, in addition not only decreed it, but we request international cooperation to enforce this measure”, said guided in the middle of a session legislative emergency power failure suffered by the country.
Cuba is one of the main allies of Venezuela, a country that receives some 100,000 barrels of oil each day, at preferential prices, through several cooperation agreements.
The main of them, Petrocaribe, also supplies crude oil to several Caribbean countries with the same low interest rates.
Pay the oil with sports and cultural consultants and a contingent of doctors to thicken cuba the ranks of a primary care social program known as Barrio Adentro.
But guided said Monday that “urgently” needs the crude that sent daily to Cuba to attend emergency which soared last Thursday, when a massive power outage left without service to almost all of the country.
The Government of Nicolas Maduro said that a “cyber-attack” was a failure in the central hydroelectric plant of Guri, located in the South of Venezuela and responsible for the generation of about 70% of the electricity required by the nation, a thesis which rejected the antichavismo in full.
Guided also said that the measure for cutting seeks to prevent “interference” in the internal affairs of Venezuela-Cuba, as well as the alleged control that ensures, exerts the island on the intelligence services and the armed forces.
“Gentlemen of the armed forces, you know the interference of Cuba in intelligence and Counterintelligence, we won’t follow, then, indirectly financing the participation of Cubans to subdue the armed forces”, explained.
Guided decreed this day, with the authorization of the legislature, a “State of alarm” by the prolonged power failure, that in some regions of the country already contains 4 continuous days.
This instrument establishes the suspension of shipments to Cuba, without explaining how to achieve this goal in view of the control exercised by the Venezuelan State institutions mature.
The crisis was accentuated in Venezuela since January 23 guided was declared interim President by invoking a few articles of the Venezuelan Constitution and attained the support of most of the countries of the Americas, including US, and a score of European Nations.
The Venezuelan opposition, which does not recognize the new mandate of 6 years that Maduro was sworn in on January 10, ensures that the country is going through a “complex humanitarian emergencies” and asked help to the international community to meet it.

Original source in Spanish

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