Maduro again kicked the dialogue table and questioned the return to negotiations with the opposition

The Venezuelan dictator Nicola Maduroonce again wonders about the return to dialogue with the opposition grouped in unitary platform, and that it is carried out in Mexico, given that there are no certainties or guarantees by the anti-Chavistas for negotiation.

“If they cannot respect an agreement that has been discussed for months, that has been signed with international guarantors, with international observers, What guarantees, what certainties, what motivation can the revolutionary government have (…) to return to sit at a table with this sector? None,” Maduro said while appearing on a program aired by the regime’s propaganda channel. Venezuelan television (VTV).

The Chavista regime accused the unitary platform to break his word by not specifying Second Partial Agreement for the Protection of the Venezuelan Peoplesigned in November by both parties and which envisages the recovery of the resources retained in the international financial system due to the blockade

“It’s the reality of a sector that has no words, that called for sanctions, that called for an invasion, that Now they try to apologize and wash their facethat they sit down to talk about the call we made, that they sign an agreement to 3,200 million They don’t comply, they don’t acknowledge it,” he insisted.

On February 6, the head of the Venezuelan parliament appointed by the regime, Jorge Rodriguez, head of the pro-government delegation in dialogue with the opposition, assured that the respect of what had been agreed at the negotiating table had been delayed due to obstacles imposed by the United States.

He explained that the parties are “seeing how it workswith the agreement, which consists of the creation of a investment fund directed by The United Nations invest in areas such as health and education.

In recent weeks, Chavista and opposition delegations have accused each other of obstructing compliance with the agreement, which has suspended the continuity of talks in Mexico.

last January, Jorge Rodriguez made the continuation of the dialogue conditional on the release of certain $3 billion in blocked funds, agreed at the last meeting.

“If the return to the Venezuelan people of $3.2 billion that they stole him, that they kidnapped him and that we agreed that they would be returned to him, because there is no reason to continue the dialogue with people without a word, ”said Rodríguez .

The parliamentarian appointed by the Maduro dictatorship again accused the opposition of “stealing” the country’s assets abroad, and stressed that it is their responsibility to return them. “If I put my signature and my name on a document, on a pledge, my moral, ethical and spiritual obligation is to respect and enforce those agreements,” he added.

Dialogues in Mexico resumed in November 2022 after being suspended for 15 months following the businessman’s extradition to the United States Alex Saabaccused of money laundering and accused of being Maduro’s spokesperson.

(With information from EFE, AP and AFP)

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