Why is the US Relaxing Sanctions on Venezuela?

After years of tensions, it seems that Biden is becoming increasingly friendly with Venezuela's President Maduro. So in this video we'll unpack their relationship, and why America seems to be relaxing sanctions on Venezuela

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[Simon-tcmc]

This is a good segment which TLDR needs to do more of. I think the main issue with this channel is that it covers very mainstream news and is often late reporting it. American news is already an oversaturated field, so you need to make unique content to stand out. Making a video about polling going up or down is boring and not many will care. This story though I've never heard of until now, so it was very engaging.

[cmdr]

Allowing Venezuela to export oil will hurt Russia and the Saudi's. Unlike Iran they don't pose a threat to the US. Plus American refineries need the heavy crude oil to run

[zaracaan]

I think you should also mentioned the recent political shift in the rest of Latin American countries, especially Colombia/Chile, which have opened up more for Venezuela to recover their international diplomatic relationships

[georgemetcalf]

Wow, good job, TLDR US. This hasn't been on my radar. Thank you.

[Bottleofwater-ny]

Now THIS Is some juicy International gossip and i am all for it

[secularsekai]

Oil talks 🤷
Why do you think the US ignored all of Saudi’s human rights abuses all these years?

[springlink]

0:26 “Hint, its about oil”
Every American: I have automatically been informed of everything in this video

[guss]

The term "US backed opposition" indicates that the situation is very bad...

[eldrago]

The route of most Venezuela's economic problems may not be sanctions, but ultimately the effect of sanctions is generally only to hurt ordinary people. They exist so politicians can say that they are doing something without actually having to negotiate or think much about it.

[lindseylinck]

The resumed story of Venezuela's economic downfall due to economic irresponsibility in the video is so similar to the history other countries from south america, with the difference of being quicker and more dramatic, that looks like it's a matter of time for the region to have other countries falling into an abyss of misery.

[buckdaman]

I hope this helps the economic situation for the people of Venezuela and that everyone can go to sleep with a full stomach every night . 🙏

Edit: commented before the end of the video 😅

[enriquegomez]

A large reason that Venezeula does not produce that much oil is because there machines are all old, and barely get fixed. This is also why they don't extract any natural gas from there oil, when they could. My dad worked in Venezuelen oil and he told me that most people in that center fled the country causing there to be a lack of engineers. Those people were also very wealthy, so when
Venezuela became socialist, most of the there money and possesions were taken away. This happen to me and my family during the early 2010's.

[detectivepikachu]

i gave almost the exact same presentation at work like a week ago, good work covering this.

[Javadamutt]

Don't forget that the majority of jobs in Venezuela were in state run companies especially PDVSA. Despite being state run and the source of their income the company was incredibly underfunded and wasteful with the majority of money in the company going into the pockets of officials and hi level employees on insane salaries. Very little was spent on making the company more efficient or exploration of new wells or improving equipment etc currently in use. As such oil production was constantly falling as was profit per barrel extracted

Simply, even if PDVSA was tasked with supplying oil to the US, I highly doubt that the decay before the sanctions plus 4 years of further decay and under finding they will be in any state without outside assistance to produce what they previously could never mind what is required

[denizeralp]

"Hint it's about oil"
Do you think we are children?

[opfgnyj]

Can you please cover the news regarding Sam Brinton?
I want a more neutral recap on the controversy other than from Daily Mail or Fox News.

[alejandro_mery]

I need a "you get the idea" t-shirt

[michaelgreen]

Venezuela and Iraq led the start of OPEC and still have considerable influence!!

[matthewsetlak]

You could have talked about the US railway workers and potential strikes... While this is a good video, this situation is one that urgently needs discussion and could have a lot more tangible affects on the US domestically.

[buckdaman]

If Venezuela chills out I’ll go and vacation there asap ! Be normal Maduro