mo4ch:>Venezuela struggles to find buyers for its oil after US sanctions | Mo4ch News

Following the US sanctions, Venezuela’s oil inventories have swelled to a five-year high as the nation struggles to find buyers for its oil, according to the Wall Street Journal.At the end of January, the US imposed sanctions on PDVSA to “help prevent further diverting of Venezuela’s assets by Maduro and preserve these assets for the people of Venezuela. The path to sanctions relief for PdVSA is through the expeditious transfer of control to the Interim President or a subsequent, democratically elected government,” Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin said.Also on rt.comUS sanctions help India become No.1 buyer of Venezuelan crudeThe sanctions block all payments to PDVSA accounts, and buyers of Venezuelan crude are directed to deposit payments in a separate account, to which PDVSA doesn’t have access.A week after the US sanctions were announced, people familiar with the matter told The Journal that Venezuelan oil exports are sharply falling while oil storage tanks in the countr…