Biden will speak by video call with Guaidó during the Summit of the Americas

Joe Biden will speak by video call with the opposition leader Juan Guaidowhom he considers interim president of Venezuela, within the framework of the IX Summit of the Americas,, affirmed this Tuesday the head of US diplomacy for Latin America.

“We respect and recognize the interim government of President Juan Guaidó” with whom Biden will speak by video call “today or tomorrow” to “deal with important issues in the bilateral relationship,” Brian Nichols told the VPI channel in Los Angeles.

Among the issues to be discussed is the “return to the negotiation process” between the interim government, the Unitary Platform of Venezuela, which groups the opposition, and the Nicolás Maduro regime, Brian Nichols told the VPI channel in Los Angeles, where celebrates the Summit of the Americas.

“For now it is a unilateral announcement by the United States that we are seeing in the media, there has been no notification or coordination for it,” sources from Guaidó’s team told AFP, who have requested anonymity.

The exclusion of Maduro from the Summit together with the leaders of Nicaragua and Cuba, countries that Washington considers dictatorships, provoked a boycott by several Latin American presidents, such as that of Mexico.

“What the United States government is doing is an act of discrimination against three peoples, with three governments,” said Nicolás Maduro, who insisted that Washington “stabbed” the Summit.

In mid-May, the United States announced that it would make some sanctions against Venezuela more flexible, including one linked to the oil company Chevron, in order to promote dialogue between the Maduro government and the opposition.

He specified that he had taken these measures “at the request of the Venezuelan interim government” headed by Guaidó, whom the United States considers the legitimate president of Venezuela since Maduro assumed a second term in 2019 after elections considered fraudulent by several countries.

The Maduro government and the Unitarian Platform began negotiations in Mexico City in mid-August to put an end to the country’s acute political and economic crisis.

But Maduro suspended them in October in rejection of the extradition to the United States of businessman Alex Saab, accused of being his figurehead.

After the announcement of relaxation of the sanctions, there was a meeting between Chavismo and the Venezuelan opposition.

Source: Elcomercio

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