{"id":200231,"date":"2022-11-24T12:25:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T04:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=200231"},"modified":"2022-11-24T12:25:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T04:25:52","slug":"venezuela-pres-maduro-to-resume-talks-with-opposition-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=200231","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: Pres Maduro to resume talks with opposition Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2022\/11\/24\/image-95818-1669261967.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>CARACAS, Nov 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s government will resume talks with the opposition Friday after more than a year in a bid to resolve a political crisis that has gripped the country since a contested 2018 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Negotiations between the two sides last took place in October 2021 in Mexico, and international efforts have mounted in recent months to get the talks back on track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opposition is seeking free and fair presidential elections, next due in 2024, while Caracas wants the international community to recognize Maduro as the rightful president and lift sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Dialogue between Maduro&#8217;s government and the Venezuelan opposition will resume on the 25th and 26th of November,&#8221; Colombia&#8217;s President Gustavo Petro wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He did not specify where the talks would take place, however, a source close to the negotiations said that delegations would meet in Mexico City on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After two prior negotiation efforts failed, the most recent round of talks between the government and opposition started in August 2021 in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Maduro suspended the negotiations two months later in retaliation for the extradition to the United States by Cape Verde of Alex Saab, a Colombian national accused of acting as a money launderer for the Venezuelan socialist leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, negotiators for both sides met in Paris under the mediation of French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colombia&#8217;s Petro has become a new actor in the talks since becoming his country&#8217;s first leftist president in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has worked to improve his country&#8217;s relationship with Venezuela, resuming diplomatic ties for the first time since 2019, when former president Ivan Duque refused to recognize Maduro&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venezuela is now also hosting peace talks between the Colombian government and the last official rebel group in the country, the National Liberation Army (ELN). &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARACAS, Nov 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s government will resume talks with the opposition Friday after more than a year in a bid to resolve a political crisis that has gripped the country since a contested 2018 election. Negotiations between the two sides last took place in October 2021 in Mexico, and international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200236,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200231\/revisions\/200236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/200235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}