US Removes Former Venezuelan Official From Sanctions List
- Nephew of first lady taken off Treasury list of individuals
- Opposition says it is working to restart talks with Maduro
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The US removed a former Venezuelan official from the list of sanctioned individuals, a move Biden officials pledged after a March meeting with President Nicolas Maduro aimed at coaxing him back to negotiations with political opponents.
Carlos Erik Malpica Flores, a former national treasurer and vice president of Venezuela’s state oil company, was taken off the list of Specially Designated Nationals by the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, according to a notice published on its website Friday. Malpica Flores, the nephew of Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores, was sanctioned in July of 2017 along with 12 other Venezuelans.