ABSTRACT
At least until recent times, bilateral relations betweenVenezuela and the United States could generally be classified as positive, both in strategic and in tactical terms. Both in the long term and even on specific issues, no significant problems emerged over almost two hundred years of contacts, within a simple and relatively controlled agenda of common interests. With the end of the Cold War, a certain readjustment was in order, to the extent that the United States would necessarily redefine its role in the world and in Latin America in a new hemispheric policy with a clear regional and commercial orientation. Just as inevitably, Venezuela would also reassess its position until a new equilibrium could be found.
