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(118,622 posts) Sat Mar 5, 2022, 07:56 PM Mar 2022

U.S. Officials Travel to Venezuela

U.S. Officials Travel to Venezuela

March 5, 2022 at 5:27 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 57 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/03/05/u-s-officials-travel-to-venezuela/

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“Senior U.S. officials are traveling to Venezuela on Saturday to meet with the government of President Nicolás Maduro, as the Biden administration steps up efforts to separate Russia from its remaining international allies amid a widening standoff over Ukraine,” the New York Times reports.

“The trip is the highest-level visit by Washington officials to Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, in years.”

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Oil? moondust Mar 2022 #1

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Sat Mar 5, 2022, 08:26 PM

Mar 2022

VZ haz it.

On the UN vote:

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In a reflection of the worldwide outrage at the Russian attack on Ukraine, six of Moscow’s allies who stuck by Russia in 2014, in a similar vote after the annexation of Crimea, abstained on this occasion: Armenia, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Sudan and Zimbabwe. Another supporter from 2014, Venezuela, did not vote on Wednesday. Its voting rights had been suspended as a result of unpaid UN membership dues.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/united-nations-russia-ukraine-vote

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