U.S. Allows Venezuela to Import LPG Amid Cooking-Gas Shortage
- License permitting gas imports seen as humanitarian gesture
- Residents resorting to burning deforested firewood for fuel
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The U.S. government will allow Venezuela’s cash-strapped state oil company to import the liquefied petroleum gas many Venezuelans cook with amid a fuel shortage that is forcing residents to burn deforested firewood.
The Treasury Department granted a waiver this week permitting Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, and affiliated companies to buy the fuel, known as LPG, temporarily lifting a ban put in place as part of former-President Donald Trump’s administration’s sanctions on the Venezuelan government.