Washington Venezuela: Venezuela and Transport Sales

washington venezuela: But a vessel that arrived in the waters off Venezuela's Caribbean coast a day earlier offered a more telling sign of a deepening relationship that is so alarming to Washington, according to The Independent. Venezuela has the world's largest known oil reserves, with transport and sales of its thick, sludgy crude long dependent on chemical thinners purchased from the United States. Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images By Mariana Zu iga Anthony Faiola and Anthony Faiola Correspondent covering Latin America, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, human rights, poverty, globalization and economics Email Bio Follow Anton Troianovski Anton Troianovski Moscow bureau chief covering Russia Email Bio Follow March 29CARACAS, Venezuela After two Russian military planes landed near Caracas this month, the Trump administration issued stark warnings over President Nicol s Maduro's ties to the Kremlin. After Washington barred U.S. companies from selling them to Venezuela in January and warned foreign companies to follow suit Maduro faced a dire predicament How would he stave off the industry's total collapse Like manna from Moscow, an answer arrived in the form of a red-and-black tanker, the Serengeti, that loaded a cargo of thinners off the coast of Malta before arriving in Venezuela on March 22. We keep fighting' Stories of resilience from across Venezuela View GraphicSAN ANTONIO, VENEZUELA - FEBRUARY 19 A girl MOTHER DID NOT WANT HER IDENTIFIED follows her mother towards the border with Colombia in the border town of San Antonio, Venezuela on February 19, 2019. The company that chartered the vessel Russia's state-run oil giant Rosneft. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.