Venezuela’s Sectoral Vice President for Communications and Culture, Miguel Perez Pirela, denied on Tuesday, February 10, a report published by US news agency Bloomberg, claiming that his country was sending Israel a shipment of crude oil for the first time in years.

Pirela posted a screenshot of the report on his social media platforms and branded it in the caption as “Fake”.

Latin American news network teleSur slammed the report, as the allegations heavily relied on attributions to unidentified sources described as “people with knowledge of the deal”.

teleSur further asserted the official stance of the Bolivarian nation towards Israel’s criminal practices against the Palestinian people.

It also reaffirmed that Caracas officially severed its diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv in 2009, in a direct protest against Israel’s aggression on the Gaza strip between 2008 and 2009.

For many, *Bloomberg’*s fabricated news is seen as part of a propaganda campaign, launched by corporate media outlets prior to the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moro and his wife Cilia Flores, by the United States.

Such disinformation campaigns, which have intensified after the illegal kidnapping of Maduro and Flores, aim at shaking public’s confidence in Venezuela’s acting interim President Delcy Rodríguez, destabilizing the country, and distorting its international image.

They are also intended to undermine Venezuela’s relations with the Palestinian people due to its longstanding solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

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