Behind Emmanuel Macron’s handshake with Nicolas Maduro is a desire to resolve the Venezuelan political deadlock and ease energy crisis
Europe, which before the war imported most of its natural gas from Russia, is facing a serious energy shortage after gas supply was switched off. There are concerns that the situation will get worse as weather gets colder in the coming weeks.
Such a meeting was unimaginable till late last year as the two sides have had no diplomatic connection since 2018 when the US decided to recognise Venezuelan opposition candidate Juan Guaido as South American country’s President, says Synnes. The opposition, in particular, has a lot of ground to cover if it wants to clear its track record since over the years it encouraged Washington to punish Maduro with foreign economic curbs.
Despite the US support, opposition leader Juan Guaido has failed to remove Nicolas Maduro from office. It was a major source of revenue for Caracas before Washington ordered its operations seized, and handed it over to an oversight board made up of the Venezuelan opposition. Not a day went by without stories appearing in the western press about how Venezuelans had run out of toilet paper and people were scrambling to find medicines for their children.
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