{"id":340,"date":"2026-01-12T13:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siemensrolm.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/bessent-says-us-may-lift-some-venezuela-sanctions-this-week-reuters\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:42:29","slug":"bessent-says-us-may-lift-some-venezuela-sanctions-this-week-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siemensrolm.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/bessent-says-us-may-lift-some-venezuela-sanctions-this-week-reuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessent says US may lift some Venezuela sanctions this week: Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Reuters on Friday that the U.S. may lift some sanctions on Venezuela in order to facilitate oil sales.\u00a0 Bessent also said that nearly $5 billion in Venezuela\u2019s frozen International Monetary Fund (IMF) special drawing rights monetary assets could be used to rebuild its economy. The IMF has not engaged with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Reuters on Friday that the U.S. may lift some sanctions on Venezuela in order to facilitate oil sales.\u00a0 Bessent also said that nearly $5 billion in Venezuela\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siemensrolm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siemensrolm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siemensrolm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siemensrolm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siemensrolm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siemensrolm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siemensrolm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siemensrolm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}