The United States reached a preliminary agreement with Venezuela to ease sanctions if the president Nicolas Maduro meets commitments related to the 2024 elections, two US sources familiar with the matter said on Monday, including reviewing a Treasury Department license.
Thus he recorded Washington Postwhich stated at the same time that the Venezuelan government will return to political negotiations with the country’s opposition on Tuesday, almost a year after the last meeting and while the opposition prepares for a presidential primary.
The newspaper, which cited two sources familiar with the talks, said the sanctions relief is expected to be announced after President Nicolás Maduro’s government signs an electoral commitment on Tuesday in Barbados.
“The meetings will begin on October the 17th in Bridgetown, Barbados,” the text added.
The talks, which until now had taken place in Mexico, began in August 2021 but in October of that year they were suspended after the extradition to the United States of businessman Alex Saab, accused of money laundering and accused of being a front man for the Venezuelan president.Nicolás Maduro.
They were briefly resumed, but in November 2022 there was a new break after the Maduro government will condition the dialogue on the disbursement of 3,000 million dollars of frozen Venezuelan funds abroad and administered by the United Nations.
The official delegates also demanded the cessation of financial sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union.while the opposition demands electoral conditions for next year’s presidential elections.
The meeting is also held days before the opposition primaries, on Sunday, in which the almost certain winner, María Corina Machado, She is disqualified from holding public office and in theory could not register for the 2024 elections.
Source: Ambito
