U.S. businessmen are quietly lobbying President-elect Donald Trump to drop the ‘maximum pressure campaign’ on Venezuela in his second term in office and strike a deal with Nicolas Maduro, the Wall Street Journal reports. A deal with Maduro would meet, the lobbyists say, two key Trump campaign priorities—reducing illegal migration and reducing energy prices for U.S. consumers. Instead of seeking a regime change in Venezuela by ratcheting up sanctions, which impoverished even more people who flee Venezuela and many end up in the…
