Venezuela's acting president says US unfreezing sanctioned funds

Caracas has been under US sanctions, including an oil embargo, since 2019, following Nicolas Maduro's first disputed claim to reelection the previous year. During his first term, US President Donald Trump also froze Venezuelan funds in international accounts, which Maduro estimated in 2022 amounted to some $30 billion. "We are unfreezing resources from Venezuela that belong to the Venezuelan people," Delcy Rodriguez, acting as president since Maduro's toppling in a deadly US military operation on January 3, said on state TV.