Maduro: Venezuela is "fully prepared" to resume relations with the US.

247 - Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced that the country is "fully prepared" to rebuild diplomatic relations with the U.S., reports the AFP news agency.

>> The United States says it is willing to ease sanctions against Venezuela in order to facilitate negotiations.

The rapprochement between the countries occurs in the context of an energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine and the Western sanctions imposed on Russia.

 "Venezuela is prepared, fully prepared, to move forward in a process of normalizing diplomatic, consular, and political relations with this United States government and with future governments," the Venezuelan leader declared in an interview with French journalist Ignacio Ramonet and the Telesur network.

Maduro had been at odds with the US since 2019, when former US President Donald Trump recognized opposition leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela's interim president. 

Furthermore, as a form of boycott against the legitimately elected leader in the Latin American country, the US "launched a battery of sanctions against Venezuela, including an embargo on Venezuelan oil," adds the French news agency.

Recently, however, the Joe Biden administration It is getting closer to Venezuela., having sent delegates to Caracas in 2022 to meet with Maduro. The countries negotiated, for example, prisoner exchanges. 

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