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Cars parked in line to refill gasoline in San Antonio, near Caracas, Venezuela, September 9, 2020.
(Manaure Quintero/Reuters) How Maduro’s regime is hanging on, two years after an uprising against it and what Biden should do about it.
Two years ago, on April 30, 2019, the Venezuelan people took to the streets to reclaim their democracy from the illegitimate rule of Nicolás Maduro. Yet for now, Maduro still clings to power. In so doing, he has driven what was once the wealthiest country in Latin America with the world’s largest proven oil reserves, its second-largest gold deposits, and one of the highest literacy rates in the region into abject, grinding poverty.
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Salvaging the Iran Nuclear Deal: Round One in Vienna, and What Comes Next
Tough negotiations to save the Iranian nuclear deal are resuming, and they are by no means guaranteed to succeed.
The original participants in the Iran nuclear deal are gathering in Vienna for a second round of negotiations following last week’s attempt to salvage the agreement. Last week was the first time that the group had met since former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018, and the first such meeting – after several failed attempts to kick-start talks – since President Joe Biden entered office pledging to seek a return to the deal. But there are limits: Iran joined on the condition that there would be no direct US–Iran talks, meaning that the other participants – the UK, France, Russia, China, Germany and the EU – have to play the role of intermediaries.
By Deisy Buitrago and Marianna Parraga CARACAS/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Venezuela is shipping jet fuel to Iran in return for vital gasoline imports for the South American nation as part of a swap deal agreed by the two state-run oil firms, three people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Iran has ramped up assistance to Venezuela since last year as the United States tightened sanctions on both countries, hitting oil exports by state-run firms Petroleos de Venezuela and National Iranian oil Company (NIOC).
Iran has sent flotillas of state-operated tankers carrying gasoline and feedstock for motor fuel to Venezuela, as well as equipment and spare parts to help the once-prosperous OPEC nation restart its dilapidated refineries.