{"id":163433,"date":"2022-11-27T10:53:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T14:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=163433"},"modified":"2022-11-27T10:53:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T14:53:35","slug":"breakthrough-in-venezuela-talks-spurs-us-to-ease-embargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/breakthrough-in-venezuela-talks-spurs-us-to-ease-embargo\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough in Venezuela talks spurs US to ease embargo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The government of Nicolas Maduro and the Venezuelan opposition broke a political stalemate Saturday with a broad social accord, and the US government responded by allowing a major US oil company to resume operations in Venezuela.<\/p>

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The accord heralded a potential easing of a grinding economic and political crisis in Venezuela.<\/p>\n

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It paves the way for the United Nations to oversee a trust fund of frozen assets of the Maduro government to be used for a variety of social projects in Venezuela.<\/p>

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\u201cWe have identified a set of resources belonging to the Venezuelan state, frozen in the global financial system, to which it is possible to access,\u201d said Dag Nylander, an envoy from Norway, which facilitated the negotiations.<\/p>

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The agreement, which ended 15 months of stalemate between the two sides, potentially could ease a massive flow of refugees from Venezuela throughout the region, and even impact world oil markets.<\/p>\n

The accord represents \u201chope for all of Latin America,\u201d said Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, a sponsor of the talks.<\/p>

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The humanitarian agreement calls for a yet-to-be-established UN trust to finance programs in the education, health, food security, flood response and electricity sectors.<\/p>\n

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