Sanctions against Venezuela lead Brazil to use a Russian bank to pay for energy used in Roraima.
The trade and financial blockade imposed by US imperialism against Venezuela led the Brazilian government to use a Russian bank to pay the neighboring country's government for the energy used in Roraima, a state dependent on electricity supplies from Venezuela since 2001.
247 - The trade and financial blockade imposed by US imperialism against Venezuela led the Brazilian government to use a Russian bank to pay the neighboring country's government for the energy used in Roraima, a state dependent on electricity supplies from Venezuela since 2001.
Venezuela is under siege and threatened with a coup d'état and external intervention, coordinated by the United States, with the support of satellite countries of the so-called Lima Group, including Brazil, governed by the far-right.
A report by Ricardo Della Coletta for Folha de S.Paulo states that the payment to Venezuela through a Russian bank is a "financial triangulation adopted by Eletronorte to resume payments to the Venezuelan state-owned company Corpoelec and ensure that the electricity supply to Roraima, the only state not connected to the SIN (National Interconnected System), is not interrupted."
Folha also reports that "the payments were blocked due to sanctions imposed by the US, which hinder banking operations with Venezuela." This is evidence that the policy of economic sanctions harms not necessarily the government it intends to target, but directly the people, and in this case, in addition to the Venezuelan people, the Brazilian population of Roraima.
"Eletronorte's accumulated debt for supplying electricity to Roraima has reached US$40 million," reports Folha.