A group of 36 Venezuelans asked this Friday the government of Nicolás Maduro and the opposition to resume the process of negotiations in Mexicosuspended since October 2021 following the extradition of Colombian businessman Alex Saab, accused of being a figurehead for the Chavista president.
“It is important to resume the negotiation process that was underway in Mexico. Renewing this initiative would generate confidence in the will of Venezuelans to overcome plural, peaceful and electorally the various crises: economic and social, but also institutional and political,” the independent citizens said in a statement.
Among the signatories are university professors, lawyers, businessmen, economists, farmers and former public officials.
Likewise, they pointed out that this negotiation, which began in August of last year between the Chavista government and the opposition led by Juan Guaidó and was later suspended in October, does not exclude dialogue in other instances that can contribute to the solution of other problems.
“It is very important to deal with the interests, aspirations and demands of producers and sectors that require support in the states of the country,” they added.
In his opinion, mechanisms should be created in the populations of other regions of the country to deal with health and education problems, interruptions in the provision of basic services such as electricity and water, or credit and security problems in the countryside.
“These partial and punctual agreements are urgent and can be promoted by governors and mayors, together with the regional society,” they affirmed.
They added that neither the government nor the opposition can return to the path of production, institutionalization and the “full exercise of democratic rights on their own.”
They ask Biden to promote the negotiation in Mexico
“It’s time to understand each other. government and opposition must put blind extremism aside. The fragmented expressions of the opposition are imperatively obliged to do so. The various components of the government should also accept the evidence of exhaustion of their model, “they detailed.
On April 14, another group of 25 citizens identified as “representatives of the private sector and civil society” sent a letter addressed to the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and other authorities of the North American country, asking him to continue promoting “substantive negotiations and productive to resolve the Venezuelan crisis.
In the letter, posted on Twitter by one of the document signersthe president of the Venezuelan pollster Datanalisis, Luis Vicente León, calls on the US government to “continue promoting” the negotiations and they urge the government of Nicolás Maduro, the opposition parties and the unitary opposition platform “to resume the processes” of dialogue without delay.
“We ask the US government to negotiate positions in the best interest of the Venezuelan people and to overcome the internal political pressures in the US that, until now, unfortunately, have hindered the progress of the negotiations,” the document says.
