We still cannot declare victory or count the chickens before they are born, these are predictions that we learn from a young age. Nicolás Maduro said this Wednesday that he will sign on July 29, one day after the presidential elections in which he will seek re-election, a “first decree” to call for “a great national dialogue” and thus “think about the Venezuela of the future.” .
“The first decree that I am going to sign is a decree calling for a great national, economic, social, political, cultural dialogue (…) to unite the criteria of all Venezuelans,” said Maduro at a campaign event in the state of Barinas (west). ).
The Government has sat down to “negotiate” on repeated occasions with various sectors of the country in recent years, without the final result of said meetings being made known, beyond ensuring that they were “satisfactory.”
On the international stage, earlier this month, Venezuela resumed dialogue with the United States, which had remained intermittent since March 2022, when a delegation from the White House traveled to Caracas for a meeting with Maduro.
Among the agreements reached then, is the partial lifting of North American sanctions on Venezuela last October, a relief that was reversed six months later, when Caracas did not comply – according to Joe Biden’s Executive – with what was agreed in the Barbados Agreement. signed with the opposition.
Chavismo demands an unconditional lifting of all US sanctions on Venezuela, while the United States wants the elections on July 28 to be “competitive and inclusive.”
For Edmundo González Urrutia, the opposition candidate, the Government is “the first” that “has violated the agreements it signs” and considered that the Barbados pact has “remained a dead letter.”
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