The Biden administration is moving to ease some economic sanctions on Venezuela to encourage peaceful negotiations between the opposition and Nicolás Maduro's regime.
The Biden administration is moving to ease some economic sanctions on Venezuela to encourage peaceful negotiations between the opposition and Nicolás Maduro's regime, senior administration officials said Tuesday.Officials told reporters that they are taking these measures "at the request" of the Venezuelan interim government led by Juan Guaidó, who the U.S. still recognizes as the country's legitimate president.
Senior administration officials said that "none of these alleviations … would lead to an increase in revenue for the regime."Between the lines: reported that sanctions will be lifted for Carlos Erik Malpica-Flores, nephew of Venezuela's first lady and former Venezuelan national treasurer."The policy framework for us is that we are focused on promoting a viable dialogue that leads to concrete and ambitious outcomes," senior administration officials said.
"We will alleviate pressure on the basis of those outcomes and in coordination, very closely, with ... the [Venezuela] interim government. We will re-apply sanctions on the basis of any steps backward or regresses in any sort of negotiations." Senior administration officials said that this move is a "very honed approach ... where the only path that the regime has toward the alleviation of sanctions" is to participate in peaceful negotiations.Biden officials in March made a rare trip to Venezuela to meet with the Maduro regime to discuss the release of U.S. detainees and urge them to continue negotiations,
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