Sentences with phrase «maduro orders»

The first day of presale of Venezuelan El Petro has attracted $ 735 million, while the president of Venezuela Nicholas Maduro orders large national corporations to support the cryptocurrency.

Maduro ordered to allocate more than 5 billion barrels of...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro ordered a re-denomination of the ailing bolivar currency today by knocking three zeroes off amid hyperinflation and a crippling economic crisis.

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Maduro has also reportedly ordered several state - owned companies, including an oil and natural gas company and aluminium and gold producers, to use the Petro for a percentage of their sales and purchases moving forward.

Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro sacked the head of PDVSA and handed over control to the military in order to keep the armed forces on his side.

«I gave the order to the company PDVSA, Pequiven and CVG to realize as of today a percentage of their sales and purchases in... the Petro,» Maduro said (according to a rough translation) during the petro pre-sale announcement.

According to a recording posted on Twitter by television network VTV, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has ordered several state - owned companies to convert a percentage of their sales and purchases into the petro.

Maduro announced that more than 200,000 orders from 133 countries have been placed during the 30 days of the petro pre-sale.

Venezuela's President Maduro has ordered government services to accept cryptocurrencies as a means of payment.

That perhaps lends credence to critics» assertions that the petro is just a virtual barrel of oil, an attempt by the Maduro government to raise billions of dollars in foreign exchange in order to keep the government in operation without having to do the actual hard work of drilling for and shipping oil.

«I order the payment of consular services in all embassies and consulates of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the world, [and] all consular services in the country, in the petro currency or in any cryptocurrency,» said President Maduro.

Friends of the militias told me that many have joined in order to serve the «Comandante», a goal that, despite the new slogan of «Somos Chavistas Maduros» («We are mature chavistas» a play on the meaning of Maduro's name) won't be feasible anymore, which may cause frustration among militia members.

In the latter sense, the EU and international legal orders did indeed not end up sailing past each other «like ships in the night», to use the words of Advocate General Maduro, himself an academic advocate of legal pluralism.

Subsequently, Advocate General Maduro in his Opinion of January 2008 took up the cudgels for the autonomy of the Union legal order and for the effective protection of fundamental rights.

Trump's order describes the petro's initial coin offering as «recent actions taken by the Maduro regime to attempt to circumvent US sanctions,» and declares all related transactions unlawful.

The petro was issued on President Nicolas Maduro's orders in an effort to breach the US financial «blockade.»

After officially launching the oil - backed Petro (PTR), Venezuela's own cryptocurrency, the country's leader Nicolás Maduro has ordered state - owned businesses to transact in it when buying and selling products and services.

Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's president has ordered the country's consular services, gas stations, and some other services, to accept Bitcoin and any other cryptocurrency including the nation's own Petro.