Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
canceled plans (LAHT) for a delegation to travel to Barbados for a round of talks with the country’s opposition, criticizing opposition leader Juan Guaido for celebrating sweeping U.S. sanctions.
The negotiations, mediated by Norway, have been taking place in Barbados since early last month. On Monday, the United States announced a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the country and warned that others would face retaliation for doing business with the regime, measures that it last took in the hemisphere
in the 1980s (AP). Caracas said it was open to continuing the talks in the future, while the head negotiator for the opposition
tweeted (AP) that Maduro’s administration fears “the possibility of a real political change in the country.”