Americas press review

Headlines: embargo on Russian oil, what consequences for the United States?

An oil well near Nefteyugansk, Russia.

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Pressure is mounting on the Biden government to enact an embargo on Russian oil imports into the United States.

Congress is considering a bill to block Russian oil imports, the

reads .

A bipartisan agreement was reached yesterday Monday, according to the newspaper.

An agreement that still needs to be approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate.

However,

,” writes the

.

According to the daily, some Biden administration officials and key congressional lawmakers are aware that a Russian oil embargo

,” writes the

.

In any case, this decision would deprive the American market of several hundred million barrels per year and would force it to find a substitute offer very quickly.

According to

news site , the US government is already looking to Saudi Arabia.

But it is not sure that this attempt will be crowned with success, explains an expert to the online newspaper.

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In search of oil, Washington approaches Venezuela

And it is no coincidence that an American delegation traveled to Caracas this weekend to meet President Nicolas Maduro.

A meeting confirmed yesterday by the Venezuelan president, we read in the front page of the national press.

The newspaper

title on a “rapprochement between Venezuela and the United States”.

During a televised address reported in the press, Nicolas Maduro described the meeting with the American delegation as

without however mentioning the content of the discussions.

But this meeting had at least one concrete result.

The Venezuelan government has announced that it will resume dialogue with the opposition, a dialogue that the president himself suspended five months ago.

And obviously, according to information from

newspaper , Nicolas Maduro also said he was ready to increase oil production in the event of a US embargo on Russian crude.

In this case, American officials could consider, again according to the

, lifting certain sanctions that weigh on Venezuela.

The objective would then be to allow Venezuelan oil to return to world markets and to cope with the rise in crude prices.

But according to the newspaper, such efforts face many obstacles.

Some members of Congress have already strongly criticized any effort to rekindle ties with Venezuela.

Attempts to isolate the Russian president should not be done in favor of other authoritarian leaders, they say.

This is also the opinion of Venezuelan opponent Beatriz Olavarria who lives in Miami.

Interviewed by the

newspaper , she believes that the rapprochement between the two countries will ultimately only benefit one person, President Nicolas Maduro.

A day to “recognize discrimination against women

 ”

International Women's Day also finds an echo in the press on the American continent.

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, women will gather outside Congress today to demonstrate against social injustice and violence against them, the newspaper

.

March 8 is indeed not a day to celebrate anything, but to recognize the discrimination that women still suffer today, writes the Chilean jurist Miriam Henriquez in the newspaper

.

It is also a day to emphasize the urgency of combating the harmful consequences of the covid-19 pandemic.

This pandemic has caused a multidimensional crisis, a crisis that has delayed the progress made in favor of women's participation in the labor market by more than a decade, according to the Chilean jurist.

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