{
  "id": 37688,
  "title": "Venezuela: Government and opposition talks to begin",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/02/venezuela-gesprache-zwischen-regierung-und-opposition-starten",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-02T08:23:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/venezuela-gespraeche-zwischen-regierung-und-opposition-starten/100244490.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "Caracas, Venezuela - The Venezuelan government and a faction of the opposition have commenced talks aimed at addressing the country's political future, with support from the United States. The Movement of Opposition Leader María Corina Machado, who resides in exile, will not partake in these discussions. The inaugural face-to-face meeting is scheduled for the coming week in the capital city of Caracas, according to Jorge Rodríguez, who informs on behalf of the government. The focus of the talks is to provide assistance to earthquake victims from June 24th, as well as to \"strengthen democracy\" and \"political rights and guarantees.\" The government's President of the Parliament, Jorge Rodríguez, is leading the negotiations. On the opposition side, Dinorah Figuera, a former president of the 2015 elected parliament, will attend. The United States backs the process but does not take part in the negotiations. Award-winning opposition figure María Corina Machado and opposition politician Edmundo González Urrutia, who ran in the 2024 presidential election, stated that their political camp has not been involved in the negotiations. The mechanism for the dialogue was agreed upon between members of the 2015 elected parliament and government representatives. Figuera and Rodríguez had announced their shared agenda back in mid-July. Prior to this, democratic institutions, electoral systems, and political participation rights were identified as key priorities. The new dialogue represents another attempt to resolve Venezuela's political crisis through negotiations. Previous rounds of talks have repeatedly failed.",
  "summary": "New talks are intended to help overcome the political crisis in the South American country. However, the most important opposition leader is still boycotting the process supported by the USA.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}