WASHINGTON, April 12 (Reuters)– The United States on Friday introduced even more assents on delivery firms delivering oil from Venezuela, blacklisting 4 delivery firms and also 9 vessels, several of which the UNITED STATE Treasury Department claimed lugged oil toCuba

The UNITED STATE Treasury identified the companies as Liberia- based Jennifer Navigation Ltd, Lima Shipping Corp and also Large Range Ltd, and also Italy- based PB Tankers S.P.A.

It blacklisted one vessel coming from each of the Liberian companies and also 6 possessed by the Italian company.

A Treasury declaration claimed Venezuela’s oil field proceeded “to provide a lifeline to the illegitimate regime” of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

“We continue to target companies that transport Venezuelan oil to Cuba, as they are profiting while the Maduro regime pillages natural resources,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claimed in the declaration.

“Venezuela’s oil belongs to the Venezuelan people, and should not be used as a bargaining tool to prop up dictators and prolong oppression,” he claimed.

The assents restrict ventures with the companies by united state residents and also obstruct the firms’ economic passions in the United States.

A week back, the united state Treasury enforced assents on 34 vessels possessed or run by Venezuelan state-run oil firm Petr óleos de Venezuela, S.A, or PDVSA, as well as additionally on 2 firms and also a vessel that supplied oil to Cuba in February and also March.

PDVSA however delivered 1 million barrels of oil to Cuba after the last round of assents, according to a PDVSA paper and also vessel monitoring information.

Last week’s assents began top of a previous round in January targeting PDVSA itself.

The United States and also most Western countries have actually acknowledged resistance leader Juan Guaido as the rightful head of state of Venezuela.

Guaido conjured up the Venezuelan constitution to presume an acting presidency in January, suggesting that Maduro’s 2018 re-election was invalid.

Maduro says Guaido is a creature of the United States trying to oust him in a successful stroke. Venezuela’s Foreign priest Jorge Arreaza today claimed the OPEC-member country strategies to “fulfill its commitments” to Cuba.

Venezuela has actually long sent out subsidized crude toCuba The United States explains the plan as an “oil-for-repression” plan in which Havana aids socialist Maduro weather a recession and also the power have problem with the resistance for gas.

Cuba has claimed it will certainly never ever desert its ally also as united state President Donald Trump’s management intimidated a lot more assents. (Reporting by David Brunnstrom, Makini Brice and also Tim Ahmann Editing by James Dalgleish)

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