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Caracas.- The acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, informed this Saturday of the entry of 300 million dollars to a recently created fund for "social protection" from an "extraordinary sale" of fuel oil, a fuel derived from petroleum.
In an act broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), the Chavista leader assured that this sale was made to "guarantee an increase in workers' income," of which she did not give details.
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He recalled that recently the Government he leads, after the capture of Nicolás Maduro by the U.S. in January, created two sovereign funds to which the resources obtained through "new investments in oil and gas" will be allocated: one of "social protection to improve the income of workers, health, food and housing, and another to attend public services". The president called on all sectors of her country to jointly demand that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, definitively lift all "illegal sanctions" against Venezuela. "President Trump, it is the feeling of a people, but it is also the way that Latin America, to which you have referred, can march together with balanced growth and where Venezuela also contributes to regional growth," he expressed. Precisely because of the sanctions, Rodríguez rejected this Saturday the proposal of the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, for a zero tariff on all binational trade, due to the inequality that, he said, these US measures generate, flexibilized in the last months of rapprochement between Caracas and Washington. "President Petro, we would like to, but it is not possible, because the Venezuelan people are sanctioned, the Venezuelan productive people are sanctioned, (...) we cannot go on equal terms and we have to accompany our productive country so that, under those conditions of inequality, we can go to foreign trade that benefits the Venezuelan people," he said. In any case, Rodríguez celebrated the renewed relations with the White House and congratulated the US embassy in Venezuela for raising the North American country's flag this Saturday for the first time in seven years, after both nations agreed to re-establish their diplomatic relations, broken in 2019. "Very soon we will be raising the flag of our tricolor, of Venezuela, in the United States, in our embassy," he assured. The Chavista leader asserted that her country is "demonstrating that, standing tall and with its head held high", it can "carry forward respectful relations" with the United States.
