The Venezuelan dictator assured that will request the North American visa to attend a salsa festival in New York City.
“Cilia and I are leaving, straight to New York. They’re waiting for me in New York. I like New York a lot, I have driven a lot in New York,” said the dictator who, before devoting himself to politics, was a bus driver.
Maduro participated in a radio program broadcast by a state station in which, Despite his usual anti-imperialist speech and rejection of the United States, he expressed his “love” for the world power of the North.
“My greetings to all the people of the United States of America,” said Maduro, who has expressed his willingness to meet with President Joe Bien and during the same week in which the White House announced that it will ease the sanctions imposed on the regime of Caracas.
“We love the United States of America, for the United States what we have is love”, he added.
Maduro, on whom an arrest warrant weighs in the United Statesassured that he knows in depth the neighborhoods of the big apple.
“In the south of New York is Little Italy, there they sell some world spaghetti. And Chinatown, Manhattan, the Puerto Rican neighborhood and the Dominican neighborhood. There I spent it in the streets of New York.
The presence of the tyrant of Caracas in the US, to attend the Puerto Rican Salsa Festival, could coincide with the celebration of the Summit of the Americas that year, scheduled for June 6-10.
Since Joe Biden came to power, Nicolás Maduro’s regime has sought various rapprochements with Washington in an attempt to ease existing tensions between both countries and for achieving a reduction in the sanctions imposed on the dictatorship of the Caribbean country, its officials and close associates.
However, it was not until this week that, in an attempt to reactivate negotiations with the opposition in Mexico, it was learned that the Biden administration announced that a review of the measures will be carried out.
The limited changes will allow Chevron Corp to negotiate its license with state oil company PDVSA but not to drill or export oil of Venezuelan origin.they told the agency on Monday AP two high-ranking US government officials. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because no formal announcement has been made.
Besides, Carlos Erik Malpica Flores —former senior PDVSA official and nephew of the first lady of Venezuela, Cilia Flores— will be removed from a list of sanctioned personsthey said.
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