( Spanish) — The questioned president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, appointed this Tuesday the president of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Pedro Tellechea, as the new oil minister, one day after the resignation of Tareck El Aissami, according to the president in his social networks.
“I met with the president of PDVSA, Engineer Pedro Tellechea, I appointed him as the new Minister of Petroleum, within the framework of the transformation process that the industry is undergoing,” Maduro wrote this Tuesday on Twitter. “Maximum Efficiency Partner!” she added.
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The questioned President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, together with Pedro Tellechea, appointed Minister of Petroleum of Venezuela on March 21, 2023. (Credit: Twitter / @NicolasMaduro)
Tellechea, also on Twitter, referred to his appointment as minister. “Count on my greatest effort and full commitment to continue contributing to the economic and social development of our country, hand in hand with your leadership together with the entire government team,” he wrote.
El Aissami resigned from office on Monday amid a wave of arrests for alleged cases of corruption. As he himself explained on his Twitter account, he did so “by virtue of the investigations that have been initiated into serious acts of corruption in PDVSA” and with the aim of “fully supporting, accompanying, and backing that process.”
