Venezuela (AFP) – Venezuela is interested in improving its rocky relations with the United States, and hopes President Barack Obama will “rectify” US policy toward the crisis-torn South American country, its president Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday.
The troubled relationship between the two countries, which have not exchanged ambassadors since 2010, reached a new low point last March, when Obama designated Venezuela a threat to national security.
Maduro comments on reconciliation come one day ahead of a debate by the Organization of American States, which will decide whether Venezuela’s leftist government is upholding democratic norms enshrined in the organization’s Democratic Charter.
Maduro met with US Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon on Wednesday at the Miraflores presidential palace.
