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Venezuela’s right-wing opposition said yesterday that it had pulled out of talks with the government, even as the president said they were going ahead.
Hard-line factions of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) coalition apparently won out as a spokesman said its delegation would not return to the internationally mediated negotiations in the Dominican Republic.
The Mud claimed the government had not met human rights and electoral guarantees, and that President Nicolas Maduro had not name a promised third observer nation for full talks.
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
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET