Maduro meets with Repsol executives to advance new agreements

Caracas., The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, held a meeting this Monday with the directors of the Spanish petrochemical company Repsol to advance new agreements on energy matters.

“President Nicolás Maduro met with authorities from the Spanish oil company, Repsol, to move forward with new agreements,” the Vice Presidency reported through the social network Instagram.

At the meeting, which took place at the Miraflores Palace (seat of government), Repsol’s international executive director of Exploration and Production, José Carlos de Vicente Bravo, and the president of Repsol Venezuela, Luis Antonio García, were present.

The state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela SA (Pdvsa) and Repsol maintain energy cooperation through the joint venture Petroquiriquire, with which they seek to increase oil production in the Caribbean nation and strengthen their collaboration.

The meeting took place in the midst of the tensions that arose between the Maduro government and Madrid, after the Spanish Congress of Deputies approved, with 177 votes in favor, a proposal from the right-wing Popular Party (PP) for Pedro’s administration Sánchez recognizes Edmundo González as elected president of Venezuela.

A week later, the European Parliament recognized González as the “legitimate and democratically elected” president of Venezuela.

In addition, the high representative of Foreign Policy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, attacked Venezuela on Sunday, calling Maduro’s government “dictatorial.”

Given this, the Maduro administration delivered a note of protest to the EU delegation in Caracas over the “interference” statements of the aforementioned official.

The former presidential candidate of the opposition Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD, center) arrived in Madrid on September 8, as a political asylum, after the Venezuelan government granted him safe passage.

For its part, Caracas assured that it granted the document “for the sake of tranquility and political peace” of the country.

Venezuela held presidential elections on July 28, in which President Maduro obtained 51.95 percent of the votes, while González, his closest contender, reached 43.18 percent of the votes, according to the National Electoral Council (CNE). .

The PUD ignored the results and released CNE minutes that would prove that González was the winner of the elections.