Understand that there is a legal framework that has to be respected, and that if they want to be exploiting petroleum in a country with one of the biggest reserves on the planet, they have to respect our laws.

We are removing two million barrels a day from the market and we will make it clear that this is the first step to another possible reduction.

We're working to put those barrels in place in the shortest time possible.

In this largest energy reservoir of the world, great interests placed their sights here.

We are prepared to do that, and we stand ready to defend our rights.

We're ready. There's a disaster in the United States, medical coverage is not sufficient, but ideology stands in the way, ... We lament that politics takes precedence while lives are being lost.

I think it has to be evaluated. There is an important volume from the Gulf that has still not entered the market and that could impact the market and probably OPEC will have to discuss a cut in production.

Bastion for forging relations with new strategic partners.

The ceiling will be maintained the same and we will offer the market what Opec can produce.