Maduro expresses his willingness to provide energy resources to Europe and the US: “Venezuela is here”.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has expressed Friday his willingness to provide energy resources to Europe and the United States claiming that a crisis in gas and oil supply during the winter could be “tragic”.

“Now comes the winter in the north, there is a crisis in the supply of gas, oil, a crisis that could be tragic and I tell Europe and the president of the United States, Joe Biden, Venezuela is here,” said the Venezuelan president during a visit to a petrochemical complex in the north of the country.

Maduro stressed that Venezuela “will always be here at the order” of the country’s oil and gas to “stabilize the world and to help whoever needs help”.

He also stressed that the Latin American country is “ready and prepared” to export its fossil fuels “to all the markets it needs”.

The U.S. government has had on the table for months a possible reduction of sanctions on Venezuela that would allow this country, among other things, to produce more oil and sell it on the international market, with the indirect objective of further isolating Russia after the military offensive launched in Ukraine.

In addition, the threat of a possible cut-off of gas supplies from Russia to European Union countries during the winter has led the EU-27 to look for alternatives in other fossil fuel supplying countries.

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