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<h1 class="reader-title">UK, US Are Partners in Stealing
Venezuela's Riches: Envoy to UN Moncada</h1>
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<p><a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Leaves-OAS-April-27-Trump-Runs-Over-Member-States--20190403-0002.html"
target="_blank">Venezuela's United Nations ambassador
Samuel Moncada</a> denounced Wednesday the United
States and the United Kingdom are benefiting from the
physical and financial assets which the Bolivarian
people held abroad and were illegally confiscated.</p>
<p>"Our refineries' profits are being used to pay debts to
Trump administration-friendly oil companies. His
friends, who hold Venezuelan debt bonds, receive special
licenses to collect profits from our people's stolen
money," Moncada said at the last U.N. Security Council
meeting and recalled that U.S. officials have already
announced a plan to indebt Venezuela for over US$70
billion."</p>
<p>The Bolivarian diplomat asked Council members to
determine the U.S.-U.K responsibility in the ongoing
economic warfare against his country.</p>
<p>"One aspect of this mass destruction policy is looting
and robbery of tens of billions, literally a robbery,"
he said and warned that companies profiting from U.S.
policies are using the stolen resources in dark
financial transactions.</p>
<p>"It is a plan where banks, insurance and ships are
used... [as] weapons of mass destruction, although those
who are responsible are not being brought to justice or
suffering moral sanctions they deserve," Ambassador
Moncada said and recalled that the <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/John-Bolton-Admits-US-backed-Coup-in-Venezuela-Is-About-Oil-Not-Democracy-20190130-0020.html"
target="_blank">U.S. National Security Advisor John
Bolton</a> admitted on Jan. 30 that his government
"carefully" watches companies making transactions with
Venezuela and warns them not to do so.</p>
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<p>You truly have no idea about US sanctions or
their effects</p>
<p> The US Executive Order in 2015 designated
Venezuela a threat to the security of the US</p>
<p> Banks and foreign companies will leave so as
not to fall foul of the US immediately</p>
<p> That directly affects oil output <a
href="https://t.co/x9Hi1IBrus">pic.twitter.com/x9Hi1IBrus</a></p>
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— An_African_Voice (@AnAfricanVoice2) <a
href="https://twitter.com/AnAfricanVoice2/status/1116352530114650114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April
11, 2019</a> </blockquote>
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<p>The Bolivarian ambassador also recalled that the Bank
of England unjustifiably appropriated <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Bank-of-England-Refuse-to-Return-US1.2BN-Venezuelan-Gold---20190127-0003.html"
target="_blank">US$1.2 billion in Venezuelan gold</a>
with the excuse that the U.K. does not recognize <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Maduro-Denounces-Citgo-Takeover-as-Robbery-20190128-0017.html"
target="_blank">President Nicolas Maduro's
administration</a>.</p>
<p>"The Bank of England's credibility is ruined... because
it is an institution servicing the colonial governments
of U.S. and the United Kingdom, which behave like the
English pirates of 200 years ago," he stressed, adding
that accusations depicting Venezuelan gold as "money
laundering" tools are false because the country's
monetary reserve has been deposited over there for more
than 30 years and British authorities "do know about its
legitimate origin."</p>
<p>"What we are experiencing is a new wave of economic
extortion that cuts off our country's financial flows
abroad," Moncada stressed and asked the U.N. Security
Council to determine which multilateral law or
regulation authorizes the U.S. and the U.K. to perform
an economic destruction program against Venezuela.</p>
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