The Biden administration is prepared to revoke all licenses recently granted to Venezuela Yeah Nicolas Maduro does not present a path to a fairer election by the end of November.
US Undersecretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols said “everything is on the table”, including the revocation of recently issued licenses that allow the export of Venezuelan oil and gas.
The gesture of goodwill arose in response to the signing of an electoral roadmap between the Maduro government and the opposition.
“If they do not take the agreed measures, we will remove the licenses we have granted“, said Nichols in an interview on Thursday on the sidelines of the forum Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in San Francisco.
Among the agreed-upon steps was defining a process that would allow all opposition candidates to run in the 2024 presidential election. The winner of Venezuela’s October 22 primary, María Corina Machado, is still banned from participating by the Maduro government.
Despite his comments about the possibility of sanctions returning if the Maduro regime does not comply, Nichols He said that he is “trusted” in which the government will honor the agreement and create a route for Machado to run.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said they also expect the release of unjustly detained American and Venezuelan political prisoners. Maduro has repeatedly said that he will not give in to what he described as a “blackmail” from the United States.
Source: Gestion
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