More than either Washington or Caracas might have expected may have materialised out of the recent visit to Venezuela by a delegation of US officials, ostensibly to seek the release from custody of a handful of US oil officials and military personnel.
It had been three years since the US severed relations with Venezuela and publicly announced that it was recognizing the Opposition Leader as the country’s legitimate president. Last week’s engagement which reports say had come “after months of quiet back channel talks by intermediaries” including “American lobbyists, Norwegian diplomats and international oil executives” all lobbying for President Joe Biden to set aside what had been his predecessor’s “maximum pressure” to unseat Maduro.
Source link
