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Raphael Lall

Free­lance Con­trib­u­tor

Venezuela is not budg­ing and in­stead adopt­ing a wait-and-see ap­proach fol­low­ing Mon­day’s an­nounce­ment of the rein­car­na­tion of the Drag­on gas deal with Trinidad and To­ba­go. Well-placed sources in the Nicolás Maduro ad­min­is­tra­tion told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that the re­cent rhetoric by both T&T and the Unit­ed States against Venezuela has been in­sult­ing. The sources said a dif­fer­ent ap­proach is re­quired from both na­tions in or­der for the Maduro regime to change its cur­rent stance in or­der for any deal to go for­ward.