Ian Lovett

I think overall, we're still learning how Delcy Rodriguez is going to handle this new relationship with the U.S.,

A lot of them said, you know, that there had been negotiations with the Maduro administration and that their goal always in the past was just to buy time, to sort of act like they were interested in changing, but really just to kind of delay any action that any other country might take.

And that those people suspected that that was probably the same playbook that Rodriguez and the other leaders of the Venezuelan government now were going to try to follow.

Mr. President.

They think that economic liberalization and opening to foreign investment will be very difficult without some sort of political transition, that there's not a lot of trust from the market in this government, that they don't see the country's laws are sort of being reliably carried out under this government, and that to attract foreign investment, there's really going to need to be a democratic transition.

So I think we'll see which of those views ends up being correct.