When the ban on oil was lifted for sanctions and relaxed, why did the United States and Europe start the idea of Venezuela?

Recently, the West has continuously increased sanctions against Russia, pushing up the skyrocketing international crude oil prices, and the United States and Europe have begun to play the idea of Venezuela, a crude oil exporter
.

On March 12, local time, European Commission Vice President Borreli and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Plasencia met at the Antalya Diplomatic Forum in Turkey to discuss the situation between Russia and Ukraine and oil trade
.
Both sides said the meeting went "smoothly"
.

Just about a week before the meeting, the United States sent a high-level delegation to Caracas, including Juan Gonzalez, the White House's top adviser on Latin America, and U.
S.
Ambassador to Venezuela James Storey, to explore sanctions exemptions in exchange for Venezuela providing more oil
to the U.
S.
market.
It was also the first high-level meeting
between the two countries in years.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Plasencia told the media on the 12th that Venezuela is ready to cooperate with the United States in the oil field, but the premise is that the United States must recognize President Maduro as the only legitimate leader
of the Venezuelan government.

Since Maduro's re-election in 2018, the United States and the European Union have refused to recognize the Maduro government, instead designating opposition leader Guaidó as Venezuela's so-called "interim president.
"
In January 2019, Venezuela announced that it had severed diplomatic relations with the United States, and subsequently, the United States and the European Union continued to increase sanctions on Venezuela, including banning Venezuelan crude oil exports, freezing the assets of senior Venezuelan officials, and imposing an arms embargo
.