{"id":657640,"date":"2026-01-13T11:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657640"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:27:32","slug":"maduro-capture-aftermath-us-official-reveals-when-venezuela-oil-sanctions-could-be-lifted-imf-world-bank-talks-hinted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maduro-capture-aftermath-us-official-reveals-when-venezuela-oil-sanctions-could-be-lifted-imf-world-bank-talks-hinted\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro capture aftermath: US official reveals when Venezuela oil sanctions could be lifted; IMF, World Bank talks hinted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hinted at possible easing of sanctions on Venezuela\u2019s oil exports in the next week, after the arrest of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro by US forces. The US Treasury is also scheduled to hold discussions with the heads of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on the latter\u2019s re-engagement with Venezuela with the aim of releasing close to $5 billion in Venezuelan funds locked away in foreign banks.<\/p>\n<p>In a Friday interview with Reuters at a Winnebago Industries facility, Bessent explained the Treasury&#8217;s focus on helping Venezuela access its oil revenues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hinted at possible easing of sanctions on Venezuela\u2019s oil exports in the next week, after the arrest of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro by US forces. The US Treasury is also scheduled to hold discussions with the heads of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on the latter\u2019s re-engagement with Venezuela with the aim of releasing close to $5 billion in Venezuelan funds locked away in foreign banks. In a Friday interview with Reuters at a Winnebago Industries facility, Bessent explained the Treasury&#8217;s focus on helping Venezuela access its oil revenues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657640","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}