He President Donald Trump announced on Monday that it will impose a 25% tariff About the goods of any country that bought oil or gas from Venezuela: «Any country I buy Oil or gas from Venezuela He will be forced to pay a 25% tariff to the United States in any trade they do with our country, ”Trump stressed on social networks. The main buyers of Venezuelan oil are China, Türkiye, Spain, Colombia, Brazil and India. Spain has triggered their Oil imports from Venezuela from last July to January in more than 67% with respect to the movements of the previous year.
This climb Just from the Pucherazo has occurred by Nicolás Maduro in the presidential elections of Venezuela on July 28. While, Spain imported In 2024 near 64.6 million tons of oil Venezuelan. In total, this figure represents 4.9% more than the previous year.
The United States formally recognized the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as “elected president” of Venezuela, four months after the presidential elections. Then, the narcodicatador Nicolás Maduro was proclaimed winner after hundreds of arbitrary arrests and harassment to those attached to the electoral tables. Edmundo González Urrutia was presented to the elections after the opposition leader María Corina Machado He was disabled when he went ahead of Maduro in the polls.
The president of the United States stressed that “all documentation will be signed and registered, and The tariff will be imposed on April 2, 2025Day of liberation in the United States ».
Trump has stressed that «The criminals and violent people from Venezuela They are arriving in the US illegally, and Venezuela has been very hostile with the United States and the freedoms we advocate ». “Therefore, any country that bought oil or gas in Venezuela will be forced to pay a 25% tariff to the United States in any trade they do with our country,” Trump written on social networks. Trump’s entry date coincides with the deadline he set for his team to assign tariffs on nations that impose taxes or other commercial barriers to US products.
Venezuela became 2024 in one of the main US oil suppliers last year. In total, the United States bought oil and gas worth 5.6 billion dollars in 2024, after the administration drove temporarily lifted the sanctions imposed on Venezuelan oil in 2023. Instead, they were restored after the Biden administration accused the Narcodicator Nicolás Maduro of Do not celebrate free elections and fair.
On the other hand, Venezuelan oil has arrived in the United States even after the sanctions were restored, due to a joint business license that was granted to Chevron to pump oil in the Latin American country.
This license was planned to be revocated on April 3. Instead, Chevron has achieved an extension, until May 27, after its president Mike Wirth met with Donald Trump.
The Initial license revocation It was presented by the Trump administration partly as a form of punishment for Venezuela’s refusal to accept deported immigrants, members of the Criminal Band of Aragua, the most dangerous in Latin America. This gang was created in a Venezuelan prison.
Since then, Venezuela has reached an agreement to resume repatriation flights from the United States. Caracas has received 200 deportees on Monday.
These are the monsters feel into our country by Crooked Joe Biden and the Radical Left Democrats. How Dare They! Thank you to El Salvador and, in particular, President Bukele, for your understunding of this horrible situation, which was allowed to happen to the United States … pic.twitter.com/dfdnspnid7
– Donald J. Trump Posts from His Truth Social March 16, 2025
Last March 16 Donald Trump and the President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele announced on social networks The transfer of 238 illegal immigrants Venezuelans to the Central American country.
The government of the narcodicator Nicolás Maduro has confirmed on Monday that he is waiting for El Salvador to confirm the return of these 238 Venezuelans, arrested in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), the largest prison in Latin America. After being deported from the United States.
