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Venezuela. File photoMEXICO CITY, May 18.Speaker of the National Assembly of Venezuela Jorge Rodriguez, who led the government delegation in negotiations with the opposition, held the first meeting since October 2021 with the representative of the opponents, Gerardo Blyde. Rodriguez on his Twitter blog under a picture from a meeting with the leader of the negotiating delegation. Negotiations between the Venezuelan authorities and the right-wing opposition in Mexico City, aimed at leading the country out of the crisis and resolving social tensions, were interrupted in October 2021 after several rounds due to extradition to the United States Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who was formally a member of the negotiating delegation from the Maduro government. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the resumption and expansion of negotiations with the opposition in March 2022, but no public information about this process appeared. The meeting of representatives of political forces took place almost immediately after solutions Indigenous States of America to approve the resumption of operations in the South American country for US and European oil companies. The move, as explained by the US State Department, was made to meet the intention of the Venezuelan government to return to negotiations.Venezuela will create a friendship group with RussiaThe results of the negotiations between the political forces of Venezuela in the United States are called the basis for further decisions to weaken or tighten the sanctions policy against Caracas. In Venezuela, in early 2019, mass protests began against President Nicolas Maduro shortly after he was sworn in. Juan Guaido, head of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, illegally proclaimed himself interim head of state. A number of Western countries, led by the United States, announced the recognition of Guaido. In turn, Maduro called the head of parliament a puppet of the United States. Russia, China, Turkey and a number of other countries supported Maduro as a legitimate president. As a result of US sanctions, from 2014 to 2020, Venezuela lost 98.6% of all external foreign exchange earnings, payments from the state oil and gas PDVSA to the country's central bank over the past seven years have decreased from $56.609 billion to $73.4 million a year, or more than 99%.Venezuela VP: U.S. approves reopening of oil workers