US in 'no rush' to lift sanctions on Venezuela

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President Joe Biden's administration has no immediate plans to relax the sanctions pressure against Venezuela's oil sector, despite doubts about its effectiveness and humanitarian drawbacks. “There is no rush to lift sanctions,” a senior administration official said. “The US is going to continue to increase the pressure, and it is going to expand that pressure multilaterally” until such time that Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro's government negotiates in good faith with its opponents and agrees to hold free and fair elections, the US official said.