The government and opposition of crisis-battered Venezuela have agreed to set up a UN-backed humanitarian fund, but much will depend on how they follow up or reach additional agreements.
Representatives of the Maduro government and the opposition, a coalition known as the Unitary Platform, agreed duringwith nearly $3 billion of Venezuela's frozen international assets for humanitarian aid.eased its oil sanctionsA White House official who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity tells Axios the U.S. has made clear to the regime that more sanctions relief will happen only if Maduro's team remains in the negotiations and they reach concrete outcomes.
World governments are "growing tired of neither being able to deal with a 'legitimate government' that doesn't actually govern nor having full relations with the guy actually in the presidential palace," Gunson says. Newly-elected leftist leaders in Latin America like Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who recently reopened his nation's border with Venezuela, have taken a more pragmatic approach than
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