Venezuela's government and opposition return to negotiating table in Mexico, with President Nicolas Maduro's rivals demanding guarantees of free and fair elections in return for sanctions relief
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro meets with the government negotiators heading to Mexico at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela on September 2, 2021.
The move on Friday came after the two sides last month began negotiations mediated by Norway and hosted by Mexico in a bid to solve the political crisis that has marked Maduro's eight-year rule. The talks have a seven-point agenda including easing sanctions, political rights and electoral guarantees –– but not the departure of Maduro, accused by the opposition of fraudulent re-election in 2018.
"Everything possible must be done so that this negotiation process goes well," said key opposition figure Freddy Guevara, who joined the latest talks. The United States has urged Maduro, a former bus driver who became president on the death of his mentor Hugo Chavez in 2013, to make serious efforts toward holding elections if he wants sanctions relief.
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