The regime of Nicolas Maduro and the Venezuelan opposition resumed this Saturday in Mexico the negotiations following 15 months of interruption. In a press conference, the delegates and mediators confirmed a partial agreement between the parties for the “social protection” of Venezuelans.
The agreement constitutes a “National table of social attention”, sets a trust fund to support social protection measures that will be administered by the agencies of the HIM in Venezuela and a Monitoring and Verification Mechanism,
the deal includes the injection of Venezuelan State resources frozen abroad which will also be administered by United Nations agencies and not by the Chavista dictatorship.
These resources will be progressively destined to reinforce the national public health system in terms of equipment, recovery of infrastructure, provision of supplies, vaccines and medicines.
In order to meet the most urgent needs, It is agreed to request the UN support in the implementation of the programmatic framework, including the design, establishment and implementation of a single trust fund, which would be called the Fund for the Social Care of the Venezuelan People”, sets out the agreement which was read by the facilitator of the Kingdom of Norway, Dag Nylander.
The regime and the opposition entered into dialogues in Mexico in August 2021 following failed initiatives in 2018 in the Dominican Republic and 2019 in Barbados. Maduro froze them two months later for the businessman’s extradition to the United States Alex Saabprosecuted for money laundering.
Now the dictatorship included Camila Fabri, wife of Saab, in its negotiating teamwhose incorporation to the table requires the president.
In an interview published this Saturday by The country From Madrid, the Spanish foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, indicated that his country is willing to play a role in the negotiations in Mexico “if the Venezuelans want it.”
He also expressed that the Spanish decision not to have an ambassador in Caracas since 2020 “was a political gesture that was taken to promote certain conditions” and “if those conditions —which are those of dialogue between Venezuelans—that they take their destiny and decide the best way to advance along the democratic path– occur, as we begin to see today, of course it is a decision that is perfectly capable of being reversed”.
“Spain does not want to find itself without an ambassador in a sister country in Latin America, neither in Venezuela nor in any other,” said the diplomat.
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