The United States has taken a significant step toward easing financial restrictions on Venezuela by authorizing transactions with the country's central bank and three other state-run institutions, marking the first time since 2019 that such operations are permitted within the international financial system.
The move was announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) through General License No. 57, which allows transactions deemed "ordinarily incident and necessary" for financial services involving the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), Banco de Venezuela, Banco del Tesoro, and Banco Digital de los Trabajadores.
