Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Sunday that Venezuela is “ready” to work toward normalization with the US, which would involve the Biden administration lifting crippling economic sanctions on the South American country.
“Venezuela is ready, totally ready, to take steps towards a process of normalization of diplomatic, consular and political relations with the current administration of the United States and with administrations to come,” Maduro said.
Maduro’s comments came after Venezuela’s opposition voted to dissolve the US-backed “interim government” and removed Juan Guaido as the “interim president.” Guaido declared himself president in 2019, and he received the full backing of the US, which supported him in a failed coup attempt against Maduro.
The US ramped up the economic pressure on Venezuela as part of the failed regime change effort. The sanctions have had a devastating impact on Venezuela’s civilian population and the country’s economy.
The US still doesn’t recognize Maduro, but the Biden administration has taken steps to ease sanctions on Venezuela slightly. After the opposition and Maduro resumed talks in November, the US granted a license to Chevron to restart pumping some oil in Venezuela, but most economic sanctions remain.
The US and Venezuela have held some back-channel talks, but Maduro said he wants the dialogue to be held at a high level. “We are prepared for dialogue at the highest level, for relations of respect, and I wish a beam of light would come to the United States of America, they would turn the page and leave their extremist policy aside and come to more pragmatic policies with respect to Venezuela,” he said.
Well said Maduro…
Now the Right-wing cretins will use this as more proof that Biden-Democrats are in bed with “Socialist America-haters”. They will believe that nonsense like prideful brainwashed sheep.
Biden could care less about Venezuela. There’s oil in them thar fields.
I’m sure it’s a complete coincidence that Europe’s price-cap on Russian oil shipments is about to be implemented, and that Chevron received a license to resume joint ventures with Venezuela last month.
The cap on oil was implemented on December 5’th 2022 and so far the price of Russian oil has consistently been under the cap.
Thanks for the clarification. I confused the price cap implementation date with Russia’s retaliatory ban of oil sales to countries that adhere to the price cap. The ban starts February 1st, 2023.
“Normalization with the US”? The current relationship is the norm.
I presume they were always ready, best strategy they could have is to send us more Venezuelans eventually we will get the idea that if we don’t want all the people of the South showing up on our borders maybe we shouldn’t work 24 x 7 to collapse their economies and incidentally drive up our energy prices.
..oh and by the way can you please tell Little Britain to give our gold back?