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Venezuelan government and opposition begin talks on vaccine financing

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Venezuelan government officials and opposition leaders have met to discuss buying coronavirus vaccines through the COVAX program using cash frozen in the United States by economic sanctions, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday, February 11th.

Opposition leader Juan Guaidó last week said that Venezuelan funds controlled by the U.S. Treasury Department could be used to pay for vaccines. The cash-strapped government of President Nicolás Maduro has signed up for COVAX, co-led by the World Health Organization to provide vaccines globally, but has not made the associated payments.

The meeting . . .

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