Another government could solve the global energy crisis

Opposition leader María Corina Machado said on Wednesday that if the government of Nicolás Maduro agrees to a democratic transfer of power, Venezuela could resolve the global energy crisis.

“Venezuela can become, with a democratic transfer of government, the greatest partner in resolving the global energy crisis,” Machado said during a virtual speech at the Concordia Forum, an event held in New York simultaneously with the United Nations General Assembly and attended by other political and business leaders.

Venezuela, the country with the largest oil reserves in the world with approximately 304 million barrels of oil, produced an average of 850,000 barrels per day (bpd) last year.

A figure higher than the three previous courses, but far from the 3.23 bpd recorded in 2008, just five years before the death of President Hugo Chavez and the start of an uncontrolled economic crisis in the country, which has caused the exodus of almost 8 million people.

Venezuela’s oil production in August was 927,000 bpd, according to official figures compiled by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

“I can only see my life in Venezuela and in freedom,” says Machado

The representative of the Vente Venezuela party (VV) also referred to his own situation in the country, now that the opposition’s candidate for the presidential elections, Edmundo González, has gone into exile in Spain, and after the Venezuelan government has not published the minutes of the presidential elections, in addition to having already put together its team for the next legislative session.

“I can only see my life in Venezuela and in freedom. Mine is the story of millions of anonymous heroes. This is an ethical fight for the truth,” Machado said.

On the occasion of UN Week, the United States and Argentina are co-organizing a high-level meeting on Thursday to try to push for a negotiated solution to the blockade in Venezuela through a democratic transfer of power from the government to the opposition, which both countries consider the winner of the last elections.

The Venezuelan opposition has tried to make its cause visible during the high-level week at the United Nations, which since Tuesday brings together world leaders and heads of international diplomacy, through simultaneous events such as the one on Monday led by Ana Corina Sosa – daughter of the opposition – together with politicians such as Felipe González, former president of the Spanish Government..