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The movements in the new geostrategic board of America caused by

the Russian invasion of Ukraine,

including the American castlings, do not stop.

"We will review the sanctions only if there is significant progress in the negotiations in Mexico. We continue to support the people of Venezuela," said

Ned Price

, spokesman for the State Department on Saturday.

The government statements culminated a week of internal criticism after

the surprising mini-summit in Caracas between Nicolás Maduro and Juan González

, Biden's main adviser for the continent and the highest-ranking official who has traveled to Venezuela in 23 years of Bolivarian revolution.

For some it is a slowdown in the face of the first

shock

caused by the trip, others interpret it as a retreat from Washington after the expectations raised and when Chavismo has once again made it very clear, after the meeting in Turkey between Vice President

Delcy Rodríguez

and the Russian foreign minister,

Serguei Lavrov

, who maintains his alliance with Moscow at all costs.

Of course, for the moment

Maduro rules out the installation of Russian bases in his territory.

"They are doing damage control, especially internally, due to criticism from congressmen. I think it is still too early to conclude that there is a going back, we will see if Washington makes a move next week. The oil thing (replacement of the Russian by the Venezuelan , now sanctioned) was the push, which makes Maduro believe that now it is possible for the US to relax the sanctions, but they still have to tie it with concrete advances or concessions made by Maduro due to the political cost within the US," explains to EL MUNDO the internationalist

Mariano de Alba,

senior advisor to the International Crisis Group.

"Biden seeks to weaken Russia's influence in Latin America. The oil thing does not seem to be the most serious reason, not because they do not need it, but because the Venezuelan oil industry is destroyed. It would take them a long time to recover it, and even with that supply, That is not going to stop the rise in gasoline prices, which is the problem in the US,"

María Puerta Riera,

a professor of American government in Florida, weighs up for this newspaper.

"Damage control," insists political scientist Walter Molina Galdi.

"Perhaps they have underestimated the relevance that the world has once again given to democracy, and the need for it where there is none, after the last few weeks. Let's see what comes next," concludes Molina.

So, what is the balance of the mini-summit in Caracas so far?

The release of two of the 10 US prisoners in Maduro's dungeons, a certain strengthening of the Bolivarian government, the annoyance of Colombia and a new shock for the democratic opposition, which seems to live in constant eruption.

"We are not going to ask other countries for permission to reunite Americans with their families," confirmed a senior White House official after the return to their homes in the US of Gustavo Cárdenas, former manager of Citgo, a US subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), sentenced to almost nine years in prison, and Cuban-American tourist Jorge Alberto Fernández, one year in prison for carrying a toy drone.

In Venezuela, five directors of Citgo and three former soldiers remain imprisoned.

"Much noise and few nuts.

I don't see the US gaining anything from this movement,

neither practically nor symbolically," summarizes historian

Armando Chaguaceda,

one of the leading experts on revolutions.

While the US comes and goes on the board, Chavismo does not stop moving its pieces either.

"There will be no way to deviate from this worthy path," Nicolasito Maduro Jr. stressed on his social networks to the delight of his father and to reassure his followers.

The same ones who verified how the vice president Delcy Rodríguez was photographed this Friday with the former president of the Spanish government

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

in Turkey while she drew the v of victory with her fingers.

"Maduro's authoritarian claims are the same as Putin's. It is the same fight of democracy against authoritarianism. In this global conflict, we Venezuelans have to fight for a free and democratic country to stop these claims," ​​stressed the president in charge Juan Guaidó, who received like a jug of cold water that kind of thaw initiated by Washington and from which Maduro appears today as a great beneficiary.

"The opposition fragmentation has deepened," Puerta reasons, while De Alba believes "the interim government is weakened, especially in its effort to insist that they are the interlocutors that the international community and especially the US government have on Venezuela. But it is also true that this could serve as an impetus for the opposition in general to be motivated to come out of their lethargy, because now they could have a lot of work to do to prepare to return to Mexico and all that that implies. If the opposition does not come to their senses and resolve its internal situation, it is very unlikely that the negotiation in Mexico will advance".


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