Biden Starts Dealing With Venezuela

 Masses have left Venezuela for the safety of America. Dealing with that country will do more to relieve the southern borer's immigration problems than any wall. U.S. to ease sanctions on Venezuelan oil for freer presidential election came to me last week, and I have heard nothing more on the subject.

The sanctions relief is to be announced after Maduro’s government and Venezuela’s U.S.-backed opposition sign an agreement to include commitments by the socialist government to allow a freer vote in 2024, the people said. They are expected to do that during a meeting in Barbados on Tuesday with U.S. officials in attendance.

Maduro, who claimed victory in a 2018 election widely viewed as fraudulent, would agree to a process for lifting bans on opposition candidates running, one of the people said, though it is not clear how quickly that process would take place. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the talks.

The deal, which follows multiple attempts at negotiation between the Maduro government and opposition, would be the most significant progress in Venezuela’s political stalemate in years. It also suggests a willingness on behalf of the Biden administration to provide incentives to Maduro in the hopes of ensuring free and fair presidential elections in 2024.

About time. Now if we can get the Republicans to actually govern, to fund enough administrative law judges to process those asylum-seekers rather than use them for their hysterical politics.

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