Government and opposition of Venezuela return to a dialogue table in R. Dominicana

The Dominican President, Danilo Medina, announced on Thursday the new date of the meeting after noting that the dialogue "is the best solution for Venezuela and its people."
 In a statement, the Dominican Foreign Minister, Miguel Vargas, ratified the resumption of the dialogue, to which both parties have confirmed their attendance, while he informed that representatives of Chile and Nicaragua, countries accompanying those talks, already arrived in the country, and that in the other participating delegations will arrive the next hours.
 "The only purpose of the Dominican Government is that the parties reach a definitive agreement in favor of the people of Venezuela," Vargas said, and stressed "that this objective is shared by the other partners of the dialogue and the international community, in general."
 These conversations started last December in Santo Domingo under the auspices of Medina and the former president of the Spanish Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and with the accompaniment of Chile, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
 The dialogue to find a way out of the serious political and economic crisis of the South American country also had the support of Mexico, which this week withdrew after the unilateral convocation of presidential elections by the Venezuelan government.
 Just yesterday, the opposition Democratic Unity Table (MUD) reported that it will attend the meeting tomorrow to "demand the electoral guarantees that allow fair elections and thus promote a change for our people."
 According to the MUD, the government "has deepened its position of boycott at the negotiating table by proceeding to the illegalization" of opposition parties and by decreeing unilaterally that the presidential elections, one of the topics of the dialogue, will be held in the first four-month period. and not at the end of the year as it usually happens in the Caribbean country.
 The National Constituent Assembly (ANC) of Venezuela, formed only by pro-government and not recognized by the opposition and numerous governments, decided to advance the presidential elections and demanded that five opposition parties, including the MUD, revalidate their payrolls to participate in the elections. elections.
 The Voluntad Popular party (VP), of the opposition under house arrest Leopoldo López, decided not to attend this day after the last decisions of the ANC.
 The parties had planned to meet again in Santo Domingo on January 18 but the opposition did not attend the meeting, so the dialogue was postponed to a new date.
 One of the reasons invoked by the opposition to not participate in the meeting were statements by the Interior Minister of Venezuela, Néstor Reverol, who assured two days before having obtained from the anti-Chavez negotiators information that led to the whereabouts of the former police inspector. Óscar Pérez, who died during a police action.
 The central aspects for the opposition in this dialogue are to achieve electoral guarantees for the presidential elections this year, the opening of a humanitarian channel that allows the shipment of medicines and food, the release of the prisoners they consider "political prisoners" and the restitution of the constitutional powers from which Parliament was stripped.
 In as much, the oficialismo demands the lifting of the economic sanctions that weigh on some of its civil employees and the recognition of the Constituent Assembly, a plenipotentiary organ integrated only by pro-government and not recognized by numerous Governments.