VENEZUELA’s government said on Saturday that it had attended talks with the rightwing opposition — which vehemently denied it.
Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez and two other United Socialist Party (PSUV) leaders attended indirect negotiations in the Dominican Republic on Friday.
The opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) coalition, which won a two-thirds majority in the national assembly in December, was represented by MPs Alfonso Marquina and Timoteo Zambrano.
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



