Caracas.- The general secretary of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, reported this Monday that the Government will request the lifting of sanctions on the South American country in the dialogue that will begin on August 1st between the current Parliament, controlled by Chavismo, and a group of former opposition deputies from the 2015 Legislature.
“We are going with a single proposal: the peace of this country, the lifting of sanctions must be part of that dialogue, of course,” indicated Cabello in a weekly PSUV press conference, broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).
The also Minister of the Interior stressed that “dialogue does not mean capitulation” and stated that Chavismo will go united “in a single block,” while asserting that the opposition has “divided” over these talks.
Dialogue with the opposition in Venezuela
“I don’t know how many pieces the opposition sector is in. That dialogue process has divided the opposition even more. Now there are more pieces,” Cabello pointed out.
The conversations on August 1st are led by former opposition deputy Dinorah Figuera and Jorge Rodríguez, president of the Parliament and brother of the acting president Delcy Rodríguez.
On Sunday, Venezuelan opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia said they hope this dialogue achieves a “timely presidential electoral schedule,” among other objectives.
In a statement, they asserted then that they will evaluate that process “based on concrete and verifiable achievements: the recovery of democratic institutions, the release of all political prisoners, real guarantees for all actors without exclusions, a timely presidential electoral schedule, and full respect for popular sovereignty”.
We recommend reading: Venezuela announces its definitive withdrawal from the International Criminal Court
Dialogue in Venezuela
Furthermore, they clarified that they did not participate in the “design, construction, and operation” of that dialogue channel, which has the support of the United States and had begun on June 18, shortly before the earthquakes.
More Read
Figuera leads a sector of the Venezuelan opposition that defends the legitimacy of the National Assembly elected in 2015, supported by the United States government.
The opposition leader said last Thursday that Machado is “very important in this process”.
