The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, during a press conference, this Wednesday at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. /
The regime and the opposition negotiate in Mexico to solve the precarious situation in which the country finds itself
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has made the lifting of sanctions in the framework of the dialogue between the Government and the Venezuelan opposition in Mexico City a condition for holding elections in the Latin American country. In this sense, he has specified that the sanctions that weigh on the oil industry “violate the laws of free trade” and “free production”, at the same time that he has stressed that the recent measures taken by the United States, which authorized the oil company Chevron to resume its extraction operations in Venezuela in a “limited” manner, “are not enough”.
“We are going to achieve sooner rather than later that Venezuela be freed from all criminal sanctions: 763 criminal sanctions that are like a sword on the neck and jugular of all Venezuelans and all Venezuelans,” he said. Maduro has also detailed, as reported by the Venezuelan television network, that the Government “will once again promote dialogue”, since Caracas wants “elections free of sanctions” and “free of unilateral coercive measures.”
“I wanted to celebrate with you the success of the agreement. I think they brought me the agreement signed last Saturday, November 26 in Mexico”, he said, adding that it was a pact “intensively worked on”, with components of a “social nature”. “Its essence is the recovery of more than 3,000 million dollars retained, frozen, kidnapped in bank accounts in the United States and Europe that belong to the Venezuelan State,” he assured during a press conference.