The US may respond to escalating political disarray in Venezuela by allowing a sanctions waiver for Chevron and four US oil services companies to expire later this month and could ratchet up oil sanctions on foreign companies still working in the South American country, analysts said Monday. While he did not comment in detail, Elliott Abrams, the US State Department’s special representative for Venezuela, told reporters Monday that the Trump administration was looking at “new additional measures” to take. “We’re looking at positive and negative things we can do,” Abrams said during a briefing, claiming that economic sanctions and sanctions on individuals were being considered. The […]