{"id":43911,"date":"2018-01-13T13:20:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T08:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43911"},"modified":"2018-01-13T13:20:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T08:20:03","slug":"venezuela-govt-opposition-resume-talks-in-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43911","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela govt, opposition resume talks in Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SANTO DOMINGO Jan 13 (TNS):<\/strong> Members of Venezuela\u2019s leftist government and opposition leaders resumed talks in the Dominican Republic, seeking to reach an agreement to ease a deep political and economic crisis in the OPEC country.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides failed to come to terms in a prior round of talks last December, when they concluded by saying they had made progress but needed more time. Expectations among Venezuelans for a deal this time around are low.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition coalition Democratic Unity \u201cis attending the meeting in good faith, to seek a way of allowing Venezuelans to build a route to the future,\u201d tweeted party lawmaker Luis Florido on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition leaders are demanding that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accept humanitarian assistance from abroad to ease a crisis that has led to shortages of food and basic goods for millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>They are also calling for the release of several hundred jailed political activists.<\/p>\n<p>Government representatives want the opposition to push for the elimination of sanctions levied last year by U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s administration, which have added to economic woes and complicated a debt restructure.<\/p>\n<p>Dominican President Danilo Medina is leading the negotiations, which also include representatives from Bolivia, Chile, Mexico and Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the participating countries have threatened to withdraw if agreements are not reached in this round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there are no concrete and credible results, then there will be no point in moving forward,\u201d Chilean Foreign Minister Heraldo Munoz wrote on his Twitter account on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday that it was also \u201cevaluating\u201d its participation.<\/p>\n<p>Previous talks, including a 2016 round facilitated by the Vatican, failed to reach agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO Jan 13 (TNS): Members of Venezuela\u2019s leftist government and opposition leaders resumed talks in the Dominican Republic, seeking to reach an agreement to ease a deep political and economic crisis in the OPEC country. The two sides failed to come to terms in a prior round of talks last December, when they concluded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[932,2109],"class_list":["post-43911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-international","tag-santo-domingo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43913,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43911\/revisions\/43913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}