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Venezuela: Talks between Maduro and the Mud begin
But opposition hardliners demand overthrow
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VATICAN-mediated talks between Venezuela’s socialist government and US-backed opposition got under way on Sunday night.
But 15 affiliate parties of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) coalition shunned the negotiating table.
Instead they penned a joint letter to Mud secretary-general Jesus Torrealba, demanding that he only negotiate United Socialist Party (PSUV) President Nicolas Maduro’s overthrow and the release of several political activists.
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