The United States will wait until April, when oil and gas licenses expire, to make a decision on whether or not to reimpose sanctions on Venezuela.
“This decision will depend on what the president [ditador] Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, will do until then to fulfill his commitment to hold free and fair elections this year”, said White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in a press conference this Wednesday (14).
“The licenses we granted for sanctions relief expire in April. At that point, we will see where we stand with the Maduro regime and whether it is fulfilling its commitments, and then we will make our decisions on how to proceed from there,” he said. Sullivan.
At the end of last year, Maduro's dictatorship made agreements with the US and the Venezuelan opposition to hold “free and fair” elections this year.
The government headed by Joe Biden encouraged Maduro to take these measures by lifting sanctions imposed on the oil and gas sector, but, in the absence of progress, it reimposed sanctions on the gold sector at the end of January and warned that if the situation If it doesn't improve, it will let Venezuela's oil and gas licenses expire on April 18.
The Caracas regime banned opposition leader María Corina Machado from participating in elections and, in recent weeks, arrested politicians and activists based on an alleged “plot” to overthrow Maduro.
Among the arrested activists is Rocío San Miguel, a military specialist who was detained by Venezuelan security forces on February 9 as she attempted to board a flight from Caracas to Miami with her daughter.
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