The US government is hoping a high-profile international tour by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido will re-inject momentum into its protracted campaign to unseat President Nicolas Maduro. Guaido turned up in Colombia today in the initial leg of his first journey outside Venezuela since an ill-fated February 2019 effort to bring in mostly US-supplied humanitarian aid from the Colombian border city of Cucuta and a fleeting regional tour. The details of his surreptitious departure from Venezuelan soil this weekend have not been disclosed. The trip comes two days after the US government quietly re-extended a sanctions waiver for Chevron and four US oil services companies to operate in Venezuela, where oil production and exports have recently stabilized despite US sanctions . Guaido will participate in a regional counter-terrorism conference in Bogota tomorrow, followed by expected EU and US visits, including a possible appearance at the World Economic Forum in […]