• Venezuela Maduro and the opposition resume the dialogue in Mexico

On Friday, negotiations between the regime of Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan opposition were resumed in Mexico City, with a couple of tense meetings in which

the envoys from Norway

, mediators of the process, participated and in which no agreements were reached or participated. all the delegates, political sources told EL MUNDO.

Former vice president of the opposition National Assembly

Freddy Guevara

attended Mexico to join the meetings by the party of opposition leaders Juan Guaidó and

Leopoldo López

, Popular Will, instead of

Carlos Vecchio

, Guaidó's ambassador to the United States. However, to incorporate Guevara, Voluntad Popular has demanded the release of political prisoners, including

Roland Carreño

, a member of the party detained since October last year, who has suffered constant hypertensive crises at the headquarters of the feared political police, Sebin, in Caracas. Guevara was detained there for a month and was released a couple of weeks ago.

The struggle is beginning to pay off.

Gilberto Sojo

, a former Popular Will deputy,

was released on Friday night

, as confirmed by the same party on Twitter: "Deputy Gilberto Sojo has been released after more than six months in unjust prison for political reasons."

There are 264 political prisoners in Venezuela

, and many of them need emergency medical attention, according to the non-governmental human rights organization Foro Penal.

Jorge Rodríguez

, president of the Chavista Parliament and head of Maduro's delegation in Mexico, confessed that the first meetings on Friday were "arduous." "We are working, I think it is hard work and

we are all in a position to make that work go

, for the good of the country. We came here to look for mechanisms so that the Venezuelan people can benefit from this effort of dialogue," said Rodríguez to reporters on Friday night.

Rodríguez assured that on the agenda of this round of talks there are points related to the economy and the pandemic. "They are fundamental points that we bring and I believe that this work will bear fruit," he said. At press time, the parties were expected to testify to the press before resuming the meetings. Among the partial agreements that the parties want to reach this weekend in Mexico City is

a mechanism to accelerate vaccination

against the coronavirus, since Venezuela is among the countries that have immunized the least population in the region. Only 11.76% of Venezuelans are fully vaccinated, according to a study presented by Dr.

Julio Castro

, advisor to the opposition National Assembly.

The opposition has proposed to the Maduro regime to buy more than five million doses outside the Covax system, backed by the WHO, through UNICEF, the Red Cross or the Pan American Health Organization.

To reach that agreement, the US Treasury should authorize Guaidó's team to use

$ 100 million of the frozen funds.

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