An Aruban committee of experts is deliberating with American authorities to exempt the island’s refinery upgrader project of “Petroleos de Venezuela” PDVSA subsidiary Citgo from the US sanctions against Venezuela’s state-run oil company to pressure the embattled Maduro regime.
This was announced by Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes (left). Talks were planned with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the US Treasury and the State Department. The prime minister suggested that since permission to establish a Venezuelan aid hub in the Dutch Caribbean was requested and granted, the Americans could also be asked for a favour in return. US $35 million is needed for the second phase of the project that was to start since September last year.
