Given the scant results of previous attempts at dialogue, including talks last year mediated by the Vatican, expectations are low. And the opposition will push for guarantees that next year’s the presidential election will be free and fair, he said. Lending urgency to the talks is Venezuela’s spiraling financial crisis. Financial sanctions imposed by the Trump administration in retaliation for Venezuela’s alleged human rights violations threaten to exacerbate the pain. “I think that the chances of successful negotiation are limited more to the economic sector than the political one,” he said.

Source: Washington Post December 01, 2017 05:15 UTC