Surprise resumption of negotiations in Venezuela

Norway announced yesterday that both parties had agreed to a dialogue this week in Barbados

CARACAS – The Norwegian Conservative government has once again managed what seemed unachievable in the middle of the storm in Venezuela: Chavismo and the opposition sat at the dialogue table after the paralysis caused by the torture and murder of Captain Rafael Acosta. "The parties will meet this week in Barbados to advance in the quest for a constitutional and agreed solution for the country, and negotiations will be conducted in a continuous and expeditious manner," the Oslo government said in a statement. communiqué released yesterday by his Chancery

Confirmation from the European country resulted in several days of intense contact between the facilitators and both parties.

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He ordered the suspension of negotiations last week after the death of the captain, illegally detained for seven days by the military counterintelligence.

The announcements also coincide with the arrival in Caracas of the European Union's envoy, the Uruguayan Enrique Iglesias, who met the Oslo negotiators, whether governmental or opposed. They are Vice President Jorge Rodríguez, Governor Héctor Rodríguez and Chancellor Jorge Arreaza, in the name of the revolution, Deputy Stalin González, Vice President of the National Assembly, the President of the Republic. Former Mayor Gerardo Blyde, Councilor Fernando Martínez Mottola and the former Director of the Council. Nacional Electoral Vicente Díaz, on the democratic side.

"In response to the mediation of the Kingdom of Norway to end the tragedy suffered by the Venezuelans, we will participate in a meeting with representatives of the usurper regime in Barbados to establish an exit negotiation for the dictatorship" confirmed the president. Manager Juan Guaidó, despite the intense
pressing which the most radical opposition sector has recently submitted to abandon the path of dialogue. The Speaker of the Democratic Parliament also approved the Rio Treaty (TIAR), an inter-American mutual defense mechanism. "Venezuelans, our allies and the world's democracies recognize the need for a genuinely free and transparent electoral process to overcome the crisis," said Guaidó.

Jorge Rodríguez was in charge of giving revolutionary approval: "History will recognize the tenacious spirit of dialogue that the Bolivarian government has shown and we hope that its efforts for the consolidation of peace and national understanding of the fruits."

The resumption of dialogue comes after one of the worst weeks of the chavismo, marked by the badbadination of the captain, whose body has not yet been handed over to his widow despite the nine days elapsed, and the devastating report by Michelle Bachelet, High Commissioner for Human Rights, which includes torture, executions, rape, persecution and abuse in a country in the midst of economic and social crisis. Among the movements preceding the resumption of the dialogue, we can quote the order given by the "president of the people" to his 43 deputies to join the Parliament with the supposed goal "to open roads of peace and peace. reconciliation ", as announced yesterday one of the bodies. of the government.