Nicolás Maduro’s regime and the Venezuelan opposition meet in Mexico
The autocrat wants America to lift sanctions
THE DARKENED rooms of Mexico’s Museum of Anthropology contain countless relics of civilisations that rose and fell long ago. So it was an eerily suitable setting for the latest round of talks designed to move Venezuela beyond its current, wretched era. With a Norwegian mediator and Mexico’s foreign minister looking on, representatives of Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorial regime and the opposition signed a memorandum of understanding on August 13th, laying out a framework for further talks. The stated goal is to hold fair elections in return for the lifting of international sanctions.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Machiavellian manoeuvres”
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