As Maduro and ally Communist Cuba crack down on democratic protesters.
“The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Monday lifted sanctions on the export of gas to socialist Venezuela,” Breitbart reported on Tuesday, “a boon to the dictatorship in Caracas and its patron government in communist Cuba, which struggles to suppress mounting opposition and calls for the regime’s total abolition.” The lifting of sanctions is significant because “Caracas has further served as an economic lifeline for Havana, supplying much of the regime’s energy needs on credit, with extremely lenient terms.”
As the U.S. announced the lifting of sanctions, the Miami Herald reported, Venezuela’s Maduro regime surrounded the home of opposition leader Juan Guaidó and arrested his former deputy Freddy Guevara. The U.S. move took the establishment media by surprise.
“The Biden Administration is also maintaining its predecessor Donald
Trump’s confrontational stance on Venezuela and China, two of Cuba's
closest allies,” Newsweek reported Tuesday, in a piece headlined, “Joe Biden Wounds Cuba, Venezuela and China's Hopes of Obama-Style Détente.” Back in February, Reuters reported
that Biden was in “no rush” to lift sanctions on Venezuela but would
consider easing them if Maduro showed he was ready to negotiate with the
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