{"id":17593,"date":"2026-01-12T10:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bessent-says-us-may-lift-some-venezuela-sanctions-this-week-reuters\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:22:23","slug":"bessent-says-us-may-lift-some-venezuela-sanctions-this-week-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/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.&nbsp; Bessent also said that nearly $5 billion in Venezuela&rsquo;s frozen International Monetary Fund (IMF) special drawing rights monetary assets could be used to rebuild its economy&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5684077-treasury-venezuela-oil-sales\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/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.&nbsp; Bessent also said that nearly $5 billion in Venezuela&rsquo;s frozen International Monetary Fund (IMF) special drawing rights monetary assets could be used to rebuild its economy&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}