There are signs, or at least so it seems, that the administration of United States president, Joe Biden, may be in the process of removing or perhaps easing some of the political and economic pressures which its predecessor had been applying on the administration of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and which have, over time, wreaked havoc on the economy of a country that had once basked in the reputation afforded it as the owner of the largest known deposits of oil anywhere in the world.