Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has declared emergency for the country’s oil industry, calling for measures to ensure Venezuela’s energy security, Sputnik reports , quoting a tweet by the presidential administration. “I declare an emergency situation in the oil industry by constitutional and presidential decree in order to take urgent and necessary measures to ensure the country’s energy security and protect the industry from imperialist aggression,” Maduro said. “Clause 2 creates a plenipotentiary presidential commission for the protection, restructuring and reorganization of the national oil industry”. Reuters quoted Maduro as saying, “The sanctions, the blockade – I will not accept any more excuses. I am signing a decree to declare an energy emergency in the hydrocarbons industry in order to adapt necessary and urgent measures to guarantee national energy security and protect the industry from imperialist aggression.” The declaration comes a day after Washington slapped sanctions on a Rosneft trading […]