Venezuelan rightwingers have sent representatives to negotiations with the government held in the Dominican Republic, despite previously vowing to boycott them unless its violent supporters were released from jail.
Delegations from socialist President Nicolas Maduro’s government and the Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) opposition coalition arrived on Wednesday.
Dominican President Danilo Medina said: “We are in the process of transforming an agenda that will lead to a definitive negotiation to the crisis.”
Concessions to Washington by the post-Maduro leadership in Caracas are designed to preserve the core of the Bolivarian Revolution not betray it, argue Roger D Harris, Francisco Dominguez and Mara Paez Victor. How the solidarity movement responds is critical
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE



