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Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute

takes us immediately to Venezuela, the outlier in making summaries of the Americas because outside actors the headline suggests

there is movement, but it's movement that is not conducive to Venezuela coming

back in from the cold. Instead, it's more likely and more confrontation from Washington.

U.S. ties renewal of easing of Venezuela oil sanctions to progress on elections.

Professor, a very good evening to you, we need to summarize how we got to this point about progress on elections.

The last we spoke of this, the opposition candidate winning the primary some months ago,

Maria Karina Chato, was banned by the Supreme Court in Venezuela

and participated in the election.

Hardly, progress is being made when you ban the opposition leader.

The same time the election is set for July. What is it that the US is looking for

because the sanctions have a clock running to run out

unless good evening to you good evening to John well the short recap on on this drama

is that you're following the Trump administration's attempt to bring

Democratic transition to Venezuela based on imposing sanctions and other forms of pressure.

The Biden administration decided to try something new which was in exchange for relatively

ambiguous promises for a democratic election this year.

They up front eased sanctions.

This was the famous Barbados Accords, but from the very beginning

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