Washington
\nThe chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Tuesday he saw different options for Washington\u2019s strained relationship with Venezuela, after making a rare visit by a top US official to Caracas.<\/p>\n
Senator Bob Corker met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other Venezuelan officials as well as opposition groups on Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a very good meeting with Maduro,\u201d the Republican lawmaker told reporters at the US Senate shortly after returning from the South American nation, whose relations with the United States have been poor for years.<\/p>\n
Corker declined to discuss specific outcomes from his visit, although he said he had not discussed sanctions policy. He said he planned to schedule a meeting soon with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the trip.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went down to get a sense of a way forward and there\u2019s a couple of options. One option is to keep doing exactly what we\u2019re doing, and there maybe is another option or two,\u201d Corker said.<\/p>\n
He also met with members of the Boston Group, a network of US and Venezuelan legislators that has maintained relations between Caracas\u2019 government and opposition since 2000.<\/p>\n
The United States imposed new sanctions on Maduro\u2019s wife and several of his top allies two weeks ago as President Donald Trump urged members of the United Nations to support a \u201crestoration of democracy\u201d in the once-booming country, a member of OPEC.<\/p>\n
The move added pressure on Maduro\u2019s government, which is widely criticized for economic collapse and undermining democracy. But it did not materially change Washington\u2019s efforts to pressure stalwarts from Venezuela\u2019s Socialist Party who have shown no willingness to hand over power or negotiate a transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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