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Venezuela progress put on halt as Mud boycott talks
Opposition pulls out of talks with government
VENEZUELA’S right-wing opposition pulled out of talks with the government on Tuesday as hope grew of countering the “economic war” being waged against the country
Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) secretary-general Jesus Torrealba announced the coalition of US-friendly parties would not attend.
Tuesday’s scheduled meeting with President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party government was to be the third since the Vatican-mediated talks began in October.
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