Diplomatic relations between the two countries had been broken since 2019. Donald Trump then recognized opponent Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela.
Venezuela is “totally readyto normalize its relations with the United States, broken in 2019, President Nicolás Maduro said on Sunday January 1. “Venezuela is ready, totally ready, to move towards a process of normalization of diplomatic, consular, political relations, with this government of the United States and with those who may come next.said Nicolás Maduro during an interview with French journalist Ignacio Ramonet and the Telesur channel, broadcast by Venezuelan public television.
The government of Nicolás Maduro had broken with the United States in 2019, the year in which the administration of Donald Trump had recognized the opponent Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela. In an attempt to oust Nicolás Maduro from power, Washington had adopted a battery of sanctions against Caracas, including an embargo on Venezuelan oil.
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Even if the current president Joe Biden continues to formally not recognize Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela, deeming his election in 2018 fraudulent, the oil crisis caused by the war in Ukraine has led to a warming of relations.
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The White House sent emissaries to Caracas in 2022 to negotiate, and eased the sanctions against Venezuela after a breakthrough in the negotiations between power and opposition, in particular allowing the oil giant Chevron to operate in the Latin American country during the next six months.
“We are ready for dialogues at the highest level, for relationships of respect, and I hope that a ray of light will reach these United States of North America so that they can turn the page, put aside this extremist politics, and arrive at more pragmatic policies vis-à-vis Venezuela“, asserted Nicolás Maduro.
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The Venezuelan president also said that “things are going wellwith the European Union and that apermanent dialoguetakes place with the head of diplomacy of the twenty-seven, Josep Borrell.