ALBA-TCP Condemns U.S. Interventionist Action Against Venezuela

An oil extraction platform. X/ @InvezzPortal

February 27, 2025 Hour: 2:40 pm

Washington seeks to extort the Bolivarian people by revoking Chevron’s oil drilling license.

On Thursday, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) harshly criticized the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to revoke the license to exploit Venezuelan crude oil granted to the oil company Chevron as of March 1.

The integration organization stressed that Washington is trying to extort the Venezuelan people through the revocation of that license. Below is the ALBA-TCP statement.

“Never before had the almost bicentennial prediction of the Liberator Simon Bolivar about the behavior of the United States, when he stated in 1829 that that country seemed destined to plague America with misery in the name of freedom, been so valid.

This February 26, 2025, abruptly and inexplicably, the U.S. President Donald Trump revoked the oil licenses granted to U.S. companies by the previous administration of that country to operate in Venezuelan territory, in a public message denoting that this is a direct retaliation against Venezuela’s position of preserving its sovereignty and self- determination.

Vicepresidenta de Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez:

"El día de hoy, 26 de febrero, el gobierno de los Estados Unidos ha tomado una decisión lesiva a inexplicable; al anunciar sanciones contra la empresa estadounidense Chevron, pretendiendo hacerle un daño al pueblo venezolano, en… pic.twitter.com/7PcoKBd12U
— Roi Lopez Rivas (@RoiLopezRivas) February 26, 2025

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez’s text reads, “Today, Feb. 26, the U.S. government made a harmful and inexplicable decision, announcing sanctions against the U.S. company Chevron, intending to harm the Venezuelan people. In reality, damage is being inflicted on the U.S., its population and its companies, also calling into question the U.S. legal security and its international investment regime. The constitutional government of Venezuela and its people, in great national unity, categorically reject this type of action publicly requested by the country’s extremist and failed opposition. Venezuela highlights that this type of failed action drove the migration from 2017 to 2021 with the widely known consequences. Venezuela will continue its path of comprehensive economic recovery, guaranteeing it with the creative effort of all and in absolute adherence to its national sovereignty and independence. As one of the South America’s liberators, Jose Gervasio Artigas, said, ‘Let us not expect anything but from ourselves.’ We will prevail!”

The ALBA-TCP countries categorically reject this extortionist action, which seeks to harm the economic, political, and social stability of the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

ALBA-TCP considers it extremely contradictory that the current government of the United States, which boasts so much about its policies to control migration to its territory, imposes measures to affect the oil industry, the heart of the Venezuelan economy, while disregarding the fact that similar actions in past years caused notable migratory flows to the United States.

By reaffirming their absolute rejection of this imperialist measure, the Bolivarian Alliance countries demand unrestricted respect for the sovereignty, independence, and the right to development of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as well as for international law and the United Nations Charter, through the immediate lifting of all extortive and coercive unilateral measures against the governments and free peoples of our America and the entire world.”

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