Caracas, Venezuela.
The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, said this Wednesday that it aspires to improve the relations with the United States with the coming to power of Joe Biden, Then break them fa quesand two years during the outgoing government of Donald Trump.
“We have to tell the United States: we want to improve our relationships“In a relationship of respect, of mutual recognition, in a relationship of the future,” he said socialist president in a televised act.
Mature raise the Venezuelan Parliament -controlled by bureaucracy after elections boycotted by major opposition parties and not recognized by Washington- a “Study” and “take initiatives” facing one “New beginning” in the relationship.
the Trump administration always kept one frontal confrontation with Maduro, whom he called a “dictator,” bombed with sanctions, including a oil embargo, and has not been known as president since the re-election of the Socialist president in 2018, in elections deemed fraudulent.
“The empire remains”
On January 23, 2019, the two countries they broke off relationships after Washington’s recognition of the opposition leader Joan Guaidó as president in charge of Venezuela.
“Trump is leaving, but the empire remains “, he sentenced Maduro, a quien Biden he called out as well “Dictator.”
His nominee to the State Department, Antony Blinken, also described him as “Brutal dictator” and said, at a hearing for confirmation in ethe Senate, which supported politics Trump to recognize Guaidó.
“We will continue to work in alliance to defend the democracy and stability of the region in the face of the threat of dictatorship, achieve freedom Venezuela and free elections, “Guaidó wrote earlier, represented in the inauguration by Carlos Vecchio, his “Ambassador” to the United States.
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However, analysts believe that the Biden government will be more moderate and will advocate for one international mediation for a gradual transition to a new government in Venezuela.
Maduro, who claimed to have heard the speech of Biden “three times”, called on the new administration to overcome what he called a “demonization” of Chavismo already “turn the page “a” so much lie (…) after four years of trumpeter cruelty “.
Tensions between Caracas and Washington have been constant since the death of former Socialist President Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) power, but got new peaks with Maduro and Trump, who went so far as to point out that in the Venezuela case “all options” were on the table, including the your military.