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US broadly eases Venezuela oil sanctions after election deal (www.reuters.com)

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[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

anticipating sanctions wars with arab nations I guess

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Gustavo Petro and Lula da Silva had been talking to Biden since they were elected about lifting the sanctions. I think Spain was supporting it too.

The only thing left to do is to reinstate Venezuela as a member of Mercusur.

[–] Peaty@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More likely trying to enable democracy and a functional economy to once again exist in Venezuela.

[–] prorester@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't they destroy it in the first place?

[–] Peaty@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

No they didn't. That was the result of years of absolutely moronic economic and monetary policy combined with a ton of theft by people at the top levels of government and the national oil company.

The USA isn't helping Venezuela's government to steal from it's people since they stopped getting a cut.