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| US reimposes oil sanctions against Venezuela over election concerns |
| 2024-04-18 |
| [Aljazeera] Move in US election year could push up oil prices, but Washington says Maduro has not made promised electoral reforms. The United States is reimposing sanctions on Venezuela’s vital oil sector over what it says is the government’s failure to adhere to democratic principles ahead of elections in July. The administration of US President Joe Biden said it would not renew a licence that expired early on Thursday, and which had partially eased the punitive measures since October after a US-backed election deal was reached between the government and the Venezuelan opposition in Barbados. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Concerns over their elections or ours... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2024-04-18 13:58 |
| #3 no squeaky wheels buttons or levers will be getting greased or oiled this election cycle i tell you! |
| Posted by: Jack+Creanter7508 2024-04-18 08:48 |
| #2 FORBESBUSINESSENERGY Venezuelan Government And Opposition Meet In Barbados, Elias Ferrer, Oct 18, 2023 BARBADOS-VENEZUELA-POLITICS Venezuela’s Plataforma Unitaria—the main opposition alliance—and government representatives met in Bridgetown, Barbados on Tuesday to negotiate, following a “memorandum of understanding” laid out in Mexico last year. The meeting was sponsored by two mediating governments, Mexico and Norway, and by the host, Barbados. Just last Friday, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the two parties were in contact again. The deal between the opposition and the government comes straight after representatives of presidents Maduro and Biden met in Doha last month. The two negotiation processes go hand-in-hand, especially given that the US executive branch and Venezuela’s opposition have been working closely in the past. The upcoming 2024 elections have be |
| Posted by: Huputle+Cherelet4131 2024-04-18 07:29 |
| #1 We're not interfering with elections, we're just trying to sell more EV's. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-04-18 06:35 |