Energy Secretary Chris Wright said that “enormous progress” is being made with Venezuela’s regime in the transformation of its decrepit oil industry, but that the objective is an end to sanctions and a transition toward democracy.

The Trump administration is officially paving the way for global oil companies to jump back into Venezuela, a country that most of the U.S. oil industry has stayed out of for the past two decades.

People participate in a debate of the commission promoting the Amnesty Bill, as Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez’s government seeks to pass the measure to release detainees amid pressure from the administration of U.

Venezuelan lawmakers on Thursday postponed debate on an amnesty bill which is meant to grant immediate clemency to individuals jailed for participating in political protests.