The United States on Wednesday lifted sanctions against Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez, who took power after Washington ousted her predecessor Nicolas Maduro in a military operation in January
Rodriguez’s name was deleted from the “Specially Designated Nationals List,” according to a post on the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control website.
Rodriguez welcomed the decision, writing on X that it was part of the “normalization and strengthening” of bilateral relations.
“We trust that this progress will allow for the lifting of the sanctions currently in force against our country, and make it possible to build and guarantee an effective binational cooperation agenda for the benefit of our peoples,” she added.
Rodriguez served as Maduro’s deputy and was sanctioned by Washington for being a key official in his government, alongside officials including former defence minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez and interior minister Diosdado Cabello.
Rodriguez fired Lopez in mid-March, but she has been walking a fine line between demands from Washington and those from her own backers since Maduro’s toppling.
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