President Joe Biden starts to lift sanctions on Venezuela
Partly because of the war in Ukraine, the United States is rethinking its relationship with oil producers
Things have changed in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. Traffic jams, absent for years, now clog up roads. Political posters, which used to loom over the city preaching grim mantras such as “socialism or death”, have been replaced by advertisements for whisky or cosmetic surgery. The buzz of a motorcycle, once something to fear in the notoriously violent capital, is more likely to herald the arrival of a food delivery than an armed robbery.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Oil be back”
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