On May 14, Venezuela’s UN ambassador, Samuel Moncada, announced a notable new initiative aimed at achieving transactional freedom. The country plans to propose the creation of a sanctions-free economic zone that aims to allow countries to conduct business without the crippling impact of sanctions. “We are proposing an economic zone where such measures have no […]
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