Sooner or later, Biden will need to take Venezuela talks off the back burner
The US should move quickly, particularly if Maduro shows signs that he’s serious about negotiating.
Geoff Ramsey is the Director for Venezuela at the Washington Office on Latin America, a research and advocacy organization advancing a peaceful, negotiated solution to Venezuela’s crisis. He is a leading expert on Venezuela’s political crisis, and has traveled regularly to the country since 2014. He is in close contact with key actors working for an end to the crisis in Venezuela, both inside and outside of the country. In addition to authoring a number of reports and commentary pieces for WOLA and the Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights blog, his work has been cited or published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and other major media outlets.
The US should move quickly, particularly if Maduro shows signs that he’s serious about negotiating.
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