Chris Wright met with the president in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, at the Miraflores Palace. In a press conference, the US official stated that they want to “liberate the Venezuelan people and the economy” and anticipated joint work with Caracas. From Washington they approved new licenses for companies that were established in the country and for other new ones to invest in the territory.
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This Wednesday, February 11, the US Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, had a meeting with Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas. The official, a key player in the current relationship between the United States and Venezuela, predicted efforts to improve the economic situation of the South American country.
“We want to free the Venezuelan people and the economy,” Wright told the press with Rodríguez after the meeting, which was also attended by the Minister of Economy and Finance, Anabel Pereira Fernández, and the economic vice president, Calixto Ortega.
In that sense, the secretary stressed that with joint work between Washington and Caracas this year the generation of oil, natural gas and electrical energy could be increased “a lot.”
“The most important thing above all this is to increase employment opportunities, wages and quality of life for all Venezuelans in the country and doing so will benefit the United States, the Western Hemisphere and our future partnership,” Wright said.
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In addition, he reported that he issued licenses to existing companies in Venezuela and other foreign companies so that they can invest in the country, buy inputs, create new jobs, increase oil production and income from exports.
For his part, Rodríguez stressed that they intend for the commercial partnership between both countries to be “the driving force” of the relationship and for “this energy agenda to be productive, effective, beneficial for both countries and complementary.”
“Let it be diplomatic dialogue, political dialogue, energy dialogue, which we are welcoming, let it be the appropriate and relevant channels for the United States and Venezuela to assume with maturity, from the historical divergence, let us assume with maturity how to continue moving forward,” he added.
At the meeting, Venezuela and the United States established a “long-term productive partnership” in the energy sector and discussed possible projects that included gas, oil and mining.
Wright's was the first high-level visit from the White House after Nicolás Maduro was captured in a US operation on January 3.
During his stay, Wright is also expected to have meetings with executives from Chevron and Repsol. The agenda indicates that on Thursday he will tour the Petroindependencia and Petropiar facilities, where Chevron operates.
With EFE and Reuters
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