(Energy Analytics Institute, 18.Mar.2022) — Talks earlier this month between a delegation from Washington and Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro related to the three issue, according to Datanalisis’ Luis Vicente León, who spoke in a video for HispanoPost via Twitter.
Excerpts from his post (see video below) include the following:
— Talks related to key three issues: 1) the release of US political prisoners, 2) efforts to restart talks in Mexico City between the ruling party and opposition factions, and 3) petroleum since “the Ukraine war creates a direct impact for the US to seek equilibrium in the petroleum markets.”
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— Rising gasoline prices is a “political cost Biden has to address.”
— “It is likely the US doesn’t need Venezuela’s oil due to its production ability but oil and gas prices aren’t fixed in the US but [brought about by] a worldwide disbalance of supply and demand.”
— Washington has to deal with rising oil and gasoline prices and its impacts of US consumers. [With higher oil prices] “US producers could look to send products to Europe where prices are better.”
— “Maduro controls Venezuela’s oil sector 100%… and a license would reduce control of Maduro in the process.”
— “Everything produced in Venezuela by private producers and ‘empresas mixtas’ is controlled by Maduro… who controls exports, oil collectioins and expenses.”
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