Caracas-Sana
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has asked his US counterpart, Joe Biden, to release about $10 million in Venezuelan funds earmarked for the Kovacs system that distributes vaccines against Covid-19.
"This money, which is the last payment by our country to benefit from the Kovacs regime, has been frozen due to the US sanctions imposed on Venezuela," Maduro was quoted by AFP as saying in a televised speech yesterday, denouncing this theft.
Maduro added, "The Kovacs regime recently announced to us in an official letter that the last ten million dollars had been frozen by the United States government... which is the so-called criminal measures by the United States against Venezuela," calling on the Biden government to stop freezing Venezuela's funds allocated to the purchase of Kovacs vaccines.
In turn, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez explained that the United States had frozen these ten million dollars by a Swiss bank as part of an investigation, without giving further details.
Cuba has been subjected to an unjust economic embargo by the United States for nearly 60 years due to its policies rejecting the attempts of American exclusivity and hegemony.
