Biden Seeks Negotiated Solution in Venezuela to End Crisis
- Opposition to Maduro is divided and he remains in control
- Biden administration will still deploy a Trump tool: sanctions
Joe Biden and Nicolas Maduro.
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President-elect Joe Biden’s advisers are preparing for potential negotiations with Nicolas Maduro’s regime in Venezuela in an effort to end the Western Hemisphere’s worst economic and humanitarian crisis, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The Biden administration intends to push for free and fair elections, offering sanctions relief in return, said the people, who requested anonymity because the new team is forming. In a departure from the Trump administration, which insisted it would only negotiate the terms of Maduro’s surrender, Biden’s advisers aren’t setting that as a precondition.