Venezuela released two jailed US citizens on Tuesday in an apparent goodwill gesture toward the Biden administration, which has reached out to the regime of Nicolas Maduro as it looks for help in shutting off Russia’s oil revenues amid the war in Ukraine.
The release of US nationals Gustavo Cardenas and Jose Alberto Fernandez followed a weekend visit by senior White House and State Department officials that Maduro described as “respectful, cordial, very diplomatic”.
