A new chapter of the complex relations between the United States and Venezuela seems to begin after Donald Trump ordered at the end of February the cancellation of the license that allowed Chevron to operate in that country. The measure, which had its immediate impact in Caracas, was answered by the Government of Nicolás Maduro with the cancellation of Venezuelan deportees. Trump’s special envoy, Richard Grenell, who in January had met with Maduro himself at the Miraflores Palace, confirmed the restart of reports. “I am pleased to announce that Venezuela has agreed to resume flights to pick up their citizens who infringed the US immigration laws. And they entered illegally into the country, “he knew through X. The confirmation of the president of the National Assembly (AN) Jorge Rodríguez, nothing less than the delegate of Maduro in the delegate of Maduro in the general delegate in the Grenelll “to repatriate Venezuelan brothers.”
Grenelll’s return to the scene supposes A nuance regarding the intransigence Trump had shown When suspending the license of the Chevron activity that represents a dynamic force in the Venezuelan economy that is dependent on the oil activity. Last January, Maduro had proposed a “Zero Agenda” with the White House that allows you to forget old accumulated grudges during the first administration of the Republican tycoon. The photo in which the hand of Trump narrowed baffled the opponents. From that moment on mid -February, two planes with about 100 deported migrants arrived. On a third flight, which came from Mexico, the Venezuelan state airline brought another contingent that included women, children and adolescents. This flow was canceled with the Washington’s turn with regard to the activities of the American oil company in Venezuela.
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Before the announcement of flight resumption, Maduro let his country be Open to the investments of other multinationals in their oil fields. “All the country’s oil fields will continue to produce, grow and consolidate their production. Now, if it is with our national and international partners better,” he said. “No one in this world can get us out of the energy stability and safety equation of the current world. No one can get us out of an equation from which we are part.” Rodríguez himself said that the possibility that other multinationals enter the business was more than an expression of desires from the Miraflores Palace. “The phones have not stopped sounding the entire planet.” The consumers of Venezuelan crude in the world market, he said, are “desperate to replace the function that” Chevron had been exercising that, to the extent adopted by Trump, produced more than 200,000 barrels per day. Its departure has begun to impact the domestic market. The Bolívar, the local currency, has lost 30 % of its value so far from 2025. Chevron’s exit can exacerbate the shortage of foreign exchange in a dollarized economy.
Inevitable negotiations
In this context, several analysts ask themselves if, from the resumption of flights, a loophole opens to resume bilateral negotiations that hold a relief for the Miraflores Palace. According to Luis Vicente León, “beyond the political pressures and hard strategies” of Trump end up prevailing the interests of the United States that in the Venezuelan case “They concentrate on solving the migratory issue” y “guarantee stability in the western energy market “, In addition to “avoiding total spraying of any type of opposition and dissent.” The evidence “has demonstrated until tiredness that it is not likely to generate solutions to any of these problems with the hardening of oil and economic sanctions, which have been clearly unable to cause a change of government in Venezuela.” León believes that “Sooner or earlier you will return to the explicit negotiation strategy “ To address American and Venezuela interests “although it is important to highlight that direct, not public negotiations, have never ceased and remain fully active at this time, far beyond speeches.”
