President Joe Biden conducted a prisoner swap with the socialist regime of Venezuela that materialized on Saturday, releasing two of dictator Nicolás Maduro’s nephews who had been sentenced to 18 years in prison in America for cocaine trafficking in exchange for seven imprisoned American oil workers.
The region of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro freed two American citizens, identified as an oil executive and a tourist, late Tuesday night following a meeting between the socialist leader and a delegation sent by President Joe Biden.
The socialist regime in Venezuela announced on Thursday it will stop sending oil to its U.S.based oil refinery Citgo after the Trump administration handed control of the company to President Juan Guaidó.
Venezuelan state media attacked President Juan Guaidó on Monday after he called for an investigation into claims two of his subordinates embezzled money meant for the housing and feeding of Venezuelan military defectors.
Six Citgo oil executives, five of them American citizens, will stand trial on charges of embezzlement and conspiracy after a year and a half in prison without charges in socialist Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro’s supreme court revealed on Monday.
Vice President Mike Pence met with the families of Citgo workers imprisoned in Venezuela on Tuesday, where he called on socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro to release them from prison.
Venezuela’s Interim President Juan Guaidó took steps this week to regain control of the U.S.-based Venezuelan oil refiner Citgo, replacing Maduro-era leaders with his preferred officials.
Contents: US court seizes Socialist Venezuela’s Citgo as compensation for mine nationalization; Argentina’s peso collapses after central bank raises interest rate to 60%; Turkey and Argentina lead the world’s developing countries in falling currencies
