The letter says that the sanctions imposed by the US did not achieve the expected effects and warns that the population is the one affected
A group of 25 Venezuelans who oppose the administration of Nicolás Maduro, including journalists, NGO leaders, trade unionists, economists and health professionals, among others, sent a letter addressed to US President Joe Biden and other authorities of that country to ease the sanctions and allow the return of transnational oil companies to Venezuela.
In the letter, published by the journalist Joshua Goodman of the Associated Pressthis group calls on the US government to continue promoting “substantive and productive” negotiations to resolve the crisis in our country and urges the parties to resume meetings in Mexico without delay.
They warn that the “maximum political and economic pressure”, through the sanctions, did not give the expected result, emphasizing that these measures, although they are not the root of the humanitarian problem that Venezuela is experiencing, do have serious consequences for the people.
They refer that there are many people in conditions of food insecurity and poverty, which translate into health deficiencies. They also point to the deterioration of the country’s public services, which is why they ensure that solving the humanitarian crisis -with the urgency of the case- must be done through focused and frontal negotiations.
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The letter states that in Venezuela a call has been made to the president, Nicolás Maduro, to accept significant and electoral reforms, just as he was asked to continue with the release of political prisoners.
“The government must recognize that these agreements cannot be limited to the economic sphere. To the Venezuelan opposition, we proposed the need to unify around basic and realistic principles to support agreements,” says the text.
They believe that if oil production is reactivated with the arrival of Western transnationals, jobs will be created and local production will be encouraged, while saying that these companies must provide humanitarian relief to bring medicine, food, fuel and other goods and services. That are required.
The letter is signed by nationally known figures such as Feliciano Reyna, Francisco Rodríguez, Marianella Herrera, Luis Oliveros, Pablo Zambrano, Rafael Quiroz, José Guerra, José Manuel Puente, Víctor Álvarez, Ricardo Cussano, Tamara Herrera, among others.
Group of 25 Maduro opponents send letter to @POTUS urging the US to ease sanctions and allow Western oil companies to return to Venezuela.
The signatories criticize “domestic political pressures” (ie Florida) that they argue has slowed Biden’s tentative outreach to Maduro. pic.twitter.com/kO1FRF6DqS
— Joshua Goodman (@APjoshgoodman) April 14, 2022
This letter is sent after that on March 5 it was known that a “highest level” commission in the US would travel to Venezuela as part of a diplomatic strategy to isolate Russia from its allies in the world due to the conflict with Ukraine, according to a note from The New York Times.
The information, signed by Anatoly Kurmanaev, Natalie Kitroeff and Kenneth P. Vogel, cites unidentified sources “familiar with the matter” who assure that the officials traveled on Saturday “to meet with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.”
According to several international agencies, the delegation was made up of Juan González, the White House’s main adviser for Latin America; James Story, US Ambassador to Venezuela based in Colombia, and Roger Carstens, US Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs.
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