Maduro declares himself willing to normalize relations with the US if he ends his "nonsense" policy

Applauds the diplomatic progress with Spain with the appointment of ambassadors

MADRID, 1 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has assured this Sunday that his country is prepared to normalize relations with the US as long as Washington puts an end to a "nonsensical policy" against Caracas promoted by former president Donald Trump.

In an interview with journalist Ignacio Ramonet, Maduro lamented the support given at the time by Washington to opposition leader Juan Guaidó, head of a "Narnia assembly", in reference to fantastic genre books.

"We are prepared for dialogues at the highest level, for relations of respect, and hopefully, hopefully a halo of light would reach the United States of America, they would turn the page and put that extremist policy aside," the president declared.

In the economic sphere, Maduro has recognized the hard blows that Venezuela has suffered in recent months to the point that the president announced last month a series of economic measures to protect the official dollar rate, applied in operations of currencies, compared to the collapse of the bolivar, which lost a fifth of its value compared to the United States currency.

"There has been a war against the currency and there have been various instruments in its stage. We have managed to appease a good part of that disturbance, but in the last three months it had a great impact on the new exchange system that exists in the country, which is a fundamentally market exchange system", he highlighted.

Maduro has highlighted an improvement experienced in relations between his country and the European Union, thanks in part to the holding in Mexico of a round of dialogues with the opposition.

"With the European Union I would tell you that things are progressing well, (there is) a permanent dialogue with Mr. Josep Borrell (High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) and a dialogue with the Ambassador of the European Union in Venezuela "Maduro explained.

The president also included in this progress the recent appointment of Ramón Santos Martínez as ambassador in the Latin American country, responded with the appointment of the diplomat Coromoto Godoy as the new ambassador in Madrid.

"I think that, in general, step by step, with strategic patience, with diplomacy, with respect, we can move forward with the European Union," Maduro said.