USA responded to Nicolas Maduro that it will keep its privacy policy “intact” sanctions once morest Venezuela until concrete steps are taken for the “return of democracy”.
“As long as Maduro and his followers continue to repress the Venezuelan people and divert resources to corrupt practices, we will continue to pressure the regime with sanctions,” he told the news agency on Monday. EFE a State Department spokesman.
Maduro asked last Thursday the president of the United States, Joe Bidento lift “all sanctions” applied to Venezuela that, he considered, are “criminal.”
The State Department spokesman urged Maduro to sit down with the opposition Unitary Platform to “solve the problems of Venezuela and restore democracy and the rule of law” in the South American country.
“Our sanctions policy once morest Venezuela remains intact. We will continue to impose sanctions on Venezuela to support the return to democracy”said.
For his part, God given hairthe number two of the Chavista regime, conditioned the progress of the negotiations in Mexico to the unfreezing of the more than 3 billion dollars.
“Now they want to ignore that money, it is that they do not comply, that they deliver that money, all the projects were delivered, where that money was going to be invested,” Cabello said during a press conference. “Now nobody knows where the money is, they do know where the money is because they and the US have that money; they are pirates, filibusters”.
“Those conversations would not make the slightest sense if they do not give the money, They have to deliver that money to sit down and talk once moreIt is the only meaning of these conversations”, he warned.
On Thursday, Maduro said that in the last 8 years “imperialism and its wimps and extremist lackeys they stole from Venezuela the amount of 411 million dollars per day”, which he described as “a criminal robbery”.
“We are waiting for the United States Government of America keep your word and release the resources of the $3.15 billion signed with the unitary platform, with the participation of the Government of the United States of America. We are waiting for that deposit, then, to continue the talks, so that they are valid,” said the Venezuelan dictator.
According to the Venezuelan dictator, part of these resources will be invested to improve basic services, among which he mentioned water and electricity, in addition to school and health infrastructure. Promises that he has made since he came to power in 2013 and that remain unfulfilled.
The Biden government has conditioned the relief of sanctions on the agreements that Maduro reaches with the opposition in the talks that are taking place in Mexico City.
The United States stopped recognizing two weeks ago the interim presidency of the opposition Juan Guaido in Venezuela, but it also does not recognize the Maduro regime as legitimate.
(With information from EFE)
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