The effects of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela’s economy have caused disruptions in planned upgrades for a key refinery in Aruba. Now the island’s government has reached out to the State Department to figure out a way forward, according to a new report by Reuters . “The Aruba government has contacted American authorities to understand what is going on. The Dutch ambassador in Washington and lawyers in New York are also addressing issues related to the contract with Citgo,” Aruba’s Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes told Reuters. “Sanctions (against Venezuela) are very firm. That is not something we can change. We are in the middle of this situation between the United States and Venezuela, and I don’t think that can be solved soon,” she added. Citgo is a U.S. subsidiary of PDVSA, the Venezuelan government’s oil company, which is the target of sanctions that restrict the nation’s access to global capital […]

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