{"id":473753,"date":"2022-03-07T10:14:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T04:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=473753"},"modified":"2022-03-07T11:39:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T06:09:12","slug":"us-venezuela-discuss-easing-of-oil-sanctions-make-little-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-venezuela-discuss-easing-of-oil-sanctions-make-little-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Venezuela discuss easing of oil sanctions, make little progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US and Venezuelan officials discussed the possibility of easing oil sanctions on Venezuela but made scant progress toward a deal in their first high-level bilateral talks in years, five sources familiar with the matter said, as Washington seeks to separate Russia from one of its key allies. <\/p>\n<p>Both sides used Saturday&#8217;s meeting in Caracas to present what one of the sources described as &#8220;maximalist&#8221; demands, reflecting longtime tensions between the Western Hemisphere&#8217;s main power and one of its biggest ideological foes.<\/p>\n<p>A US delegation led by Juan Gonzalez &#8211; the top White House Latin America adviser &#8211; and Ambassador James Story held talks at the Miraflores palace with socialist President Nicolas Maduro and his Vice President, Delcy Rodriguez, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US and Venezuelan officials discussed the possibility of easing oil sanctions on Venezuela but made scant progress toward a deal in their first high-level bilateral talks in years, five sources familiar with the matter said, as Washington seeks to separate Russia from one of its key allies. Both sides used Saturday&#8217;s meeting in Caracas to present what one of the sources described as &#8220;maximalist&#8221; demands, reflecting longtime tensions between the Western Hemisphere&#8217;s main power and one of its biggest ideological foes. A US delegation led by Juan Gonzalez &#8211; the top White House Latin America adviser &#8211; and Ambassador James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}