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Three months af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­clared the Drag­on gas deal “dead” —and five months af­ter re­vok­ing two Of­fice of For­eign As­sets Con­trol (OFAC) li­cences to ex­plore the Drag­on and Cocuina-Man­akin fields in Venezue­lan wa­ters—the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment has re­versed its de­ci­sion.

The de­vel­op­ment came fol­low­ing a high-lev­el meet­ing be­tween Per­sad-Bisses­sar and US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio at the State De­part­ment in Wash­ing­ton, DC, yes­ter­day.

In a video up­loaded to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ Face­book page short­ly af­ter the meet­ing, Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­scribed the talks as “very im­por­tant dis­cus­sions for bi­lat­er­al in­ter­ests” and hint­ed that pos­i­tive de­vel­op­ments would be an­nounced soon.