"They've had one trip and just a couple of meetings, so you couldn't anticipate that the tectonic plates would have shifted," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to BBC News.
"Es fantasioso anticipar que Maduro le dará la espalda a Putin", dijo Eric Farnsworth de AS/COA a Agence France-Presse.
"Whenever you’ve had elections across the region…one of the first things countries do is shift recognition away from Guaidó and to Maduro," AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth told The Washington Post.
"Parece ser un esfuerzo de la Casa Blanca…para tratar de aumentar la producción de Venezuela y llevar el petróleo venezolano al mercado global", dijo el vicepresidente de AS/COA.
"Clearly at some level a decision was made to abandon some of the pillars of the U.S. policy toward Venezuela these past few years," said AS/COA's Brian Winter to the Associated Press.
A better option would be for Biden to ask more friendly nations, such as Canada and Mexico, for increased oil output, said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Fortune.
"[The Western Hemisphere] is a region that Russia believes that if it can sow some instability and volatility that will negatively impact U.S. interests," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to NPR.
