The link between United States and Venezuela It was especially bad during Trump’s four years in office between 2016 and 2020, with harsh sanctions against the country, especially against state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). Maduro decided to break relations in 2019.
In any case, he now left the door open to a change in the relationship and recognized that although the country “did not do well” in the first government of the Republican leader, he foreshadowed: “This is a new beginning for us to bet on a win-win.”
Venezuela congratulated on Wednesday donald trump for the victory in the United States elections and the president Nicolas Maduro
During a program broadcast on state television, the president emphasized: “Nicolás Maduro will always be here to have positive relations with the United States and the entire world.”
The Government had issued a statement earlier in which it stated: “The people of Venezuela shares historical ties with the people of the United Stateswith whom we aspire to walk a path of peace and social justice, where war, exclusion, and discrimination have no place, and where cooperation and mutual respect are the standard of international relations.”
The tense relationship between the United States and Venezuela
Trump signed a decree in 2017 prohibiting doing business with new debt issues from the Government of Venezuela and PDVSA, in an effort to cut off funds from the Maduro’s “dictatorship”the White House said then. In 2019, it imposed sanctions on the Central Bank of Venezuela to prevent its access to US dollars.
Once Trump’s term ended, Joe Biden tried to improve the bond and briefly lifted Trump’s restrictions. However, he reestablished them shortly after, pointing out that Ripe failed to comply with a competitive democratic vote on July 28.
Maduro was proclaimed president for the third consecutive time. However, the process was inundated with multiple complaints of fraud, both from the opposition and from international organizations and nations. This cost the president important bilateral relations, who once again entered into a major internal and external political crisis.
Source: Ambito
