Venezuelans continue celebrating the arrival of gasoline tankers from Iran, easing a chronic shortage of gasoline in the face of US sanctions, and the third of five Iranian tankers arrived in dock, delivering to state-run ports of Venezuela’s petrol company PDVSA.
President Maduro talks of plans coming soon for a “new normal in terms of gasoline supply.” Venezuela struggles with the sanctions stopping the import of US oil and chemicals, and the subsidies on gasoline make it heavily unprofitable for the PDVSA.
Heavy US sanctions on both Venezuela and Iran have made such trade convenient for both. With gas prices dropping in recent months and Iran having a lot of excess supply, they stand to lose little in selling to another nation the US doesn’t like.
The US has claimed that the shipments are a violation of sanctions. They say Iran is delivering gas in return for gold, and the gold is flown back to Iran by Mahan Air. The US has sanctioned a Chinese company for doing business with the airline.
Sticks and stones may hurt my bones – but threats will never stop me.
Good on Iran and Venezuela for standing up to the BIG BULLY. Now if only more nations stood up for legitimate free trade between independent nations
the BULLY it would slink away back to its hole in the ground.
US capitalists hate Venezuela because it has attempted a more advanced form of democracy that surpasses the representative of capital form of government imposed via austerity and prisons. The genius Hugo Chávez invented a six facet government to replace the usual three branch capitalist management tool. One may quick view a seven facet example at constituentassembly.org
we don’t hate venezuela. just the fact that they are getting too cozy with the commies for our liking.
You are a US commie hater? Is it the old state corporate model you dislike. If so, why do you respect private corporatist agriculture propped up by semi slave labor over the old state owned corporatist agriculture with slave labor.
that was then and this is now. only a very small percentage of slaves were mistreated here. they had it better than staying where they were. free housing, food , health care, sundays off. and when slavery was abolished many stayed on for that .25 a day salary. the commies on the other hand were ruthless especially in the soviet bloc. they enslaved the entire population.
Heh, let’s see, you are a “happy US slaves”, fake moon landing, how bout earth ? Flat ? or globe ?
All countries should engage in an economic boycott of the US until it learns to act in a civilized manner.
we don’t need any foreign made products. we buy them to help them out since it is beneath us to produce some of it ourselves. but we could if we so desired to.
How can one country have the power to sanction the world? Silencing other nations from speaking out against their evil towards other nations. That I just can’t understand.
Thats the advantage of the dollar being so dominant to world trade, one day that will go away & unless US takes control of some new system they will lose a lot of power & ability to maintain an empire
Intimidation, and Bribery seem to work.
big deal. we let them receive a little gasoline. this backward country had to go through all that drama for that. we had no intention of stopping it. we just want to reinforce the fact that we are in charge of things in this hemisphere. any military collusion between those two will be dealt with swiftly.
only brainless morons display their stupidity in public.
it’s fun picking on a third world country like venezuela. being run by some illiterate ex bus driver is actually comical.
The USA has Trump, I would prefer a bus driver any day.
“The US has sanctioned a Chinese company for doing business with the airline.”
We are currently trying to find who was responsible for installing the airfield that the airline flew out of, and that the Chinese company was doing business with, so we can sanction them also. Then it will be the concrete company that supplied the materials for the runway. And of course we will have to go after the trucking company that hauled the materials for the concrete company that supplied the materials for the runway. We will also sanction any laborers, truck drivers, dispatchers and secretaries that worked for, or with, those who made it possible for that runway being made so that Chinese company could do business with that airline.
The United States is still a capitalist government . Although most people can’t get any return on their capital . Capital is still used to bribe and influence the government Than the government can grant special favors to the capitalists .. The deep state has finally created a system more corrupt and evil than communism . I did not believe this could be done . but by choking free enterprise for the bennefit of the capitalists they have finally accomplished all their goals . The only good thing I can see about this system is . It is so bad it won’t last very long If Trump can’t defeat this deep state we will be in for some very bad times . Maybe the worst ever on earth .
A “deep state” is what trump enters after his second big mac.
Winning?