Relations are warming between Caracas and Washington.

Venezuela is even "totally ready" to normalize its relations with the United States, broken in 2019, President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday.

"Venezuela is ready, totally ready, to move towards a process of normalization of diplomatic, consular and political relations with this government of the United States and with those who may come next," said the head of state during an interview with the French journalist Ignacio Ramonet and the Telesur channel, broadcast by Venezuelan public television.

The oil crisis facilitates the warming of relations

The government of Nicolas Maduro had broken with the United States in 2019, the year in which the administration of Donald Trump had recognized the opponent Juan Guaido as interim president of Venezuela.

In an attempt to oust Nicolas Maduro from power, Washington had adopted a battery of sanctions against Caracas, including an embargo on Venezuelan oil.

Even if Joe Biden continues formally not to recognize Nicolas Maduro as president of Venezuela, judging his election in 2018 fraudulent, the oil crisis caused by the war in Ukraine has led to a warming of relations.

The White House thus sent emissaries to Caracas in 2022 to negotiate, and eased the sanctions against Venezuela after a breakthrough in the negotiations between power and opposition, in particular allowing the oil giant Chevron to operate in the Latin American country. for the next six months.

“Things are progressing well” with the European Union

“We are ready for dialogues at the highest level, for relations of respect, and I hope that a ray of light will reach this United States of North America so that they turn the page, leave aside this extremist policy, and arrive at more pragmatic policies vis-à-vis Venezuela,” said Nicolas Maduro.

The Venezuelan president also declared that “things are progressing well” with the European Union and that a “permanent dialogue” is taking place with the head of diplomacy of the Twenty-seven, Josep Borrell.

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