The United States Government lifted the sanctions imposed on the Venezuelan public banking system, including the Central Bank of Venezuela.
The measure, announced by the Treasury Department, also includes the Bank of Venezuela, the Banco Digital de los Trabajadores, the Banco de Tesoro and any entity in which any of these institutions has a direct or indirect participation of 50% or more.
The Treasury Asset Control Office (OFAC) in turn issued a license that allows “commercial transactions” with the Government of Venezuela, with prior authorization from Washington.
These new guidelines come less than two weeks after the US removed the interim president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, from its sanctions list and represent another step in the thaw of relations between Washington and Caracas.
Without these restrictions, the main Venezuelan banking institutions will be able to enter the US financial system again and operate legally with the dollar.
After the arrest in Caracas of Nicolás Maduro in a military intervention by the US in January 2026, the Government of Donald Trump has been normalizing diplomatic relations with the Caribbean country, which they broke in 2019.
In parallel, Washington has also been lifting the strict economic sanctions to which it had subjected Caracas, under Trump’s previous mandate (2017-2021) in a strategy to try to pressure Maduro’s departure.
