In a move which appeared to send a message to the administration of President Nicholas Maduro that Washington remains steadfast in the imposition of sanctions against Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), the United States has charged ten persons, one of them a Venezuelan military officer, of helping Caracas to circumvent the US sanctions. A report earlier this week by the online energy news source, RIGZONE, revealed that the ten persons charged are accused of exporting “millions of dollars’ worth of aircraft parts” to service the aircraft fleet of aircraft owned by Petrobras in breach of the sanctions imposed on Caracas by Washington back in 2019. One of the ten arrested persons was, reportedly, PDVSA’S Head of Logistics, Procurement and Warehousing who was nabbed by the US authorities upon his arrival at the Miami International Airport two Fridays ago. Another of the ten (10) persons arrested is reportedly a Colonel in Venezuela’s military,
