Dear reader,
Like a salsa erótica set, things in Venezuela are moving at its own erratic pace. Dinorah Figuera and her team arrived in Venezuela yesterday and today they had their first meeting with the government delegation. Here’s the official photo:
Everyone acknowledges that the Figuera-Rodríguez talks are a thing because the US promoted them. What nobody has explained is what kind of mechanism it is.
Is it an implementation process for a transition whose direction Trump and Rubio have already chosen? Nobody knows (but we can speculate). Also, we can expect this whole process to be murky and shady. Access to the press has been quite limited, even on the opposition side… While interview requests by journalists and media outlets go unanswered by team Dinorah, they went ahead and met with a couple of influencers before the big meeting. There was no press conference or joint statement afterwards, just a photo op… and this insightful communiqué by the 2015 AN:
“Hi my love, I’m with Dinorah and I couldn’t call you, I’ll do it in a little bit, but she asked me to respond on the State Department’s X with this proposal:
The National Assembly elected in 2015 receives with pleasure the support expressed by the State Department for those...”
(here you can see who’s actually in the delegations)
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“I want to ask everyone to support the most important plan of all: the plan to save electricity and water. This is a plan that calls for awareness. There are simple actions we can all take. They cost nothing and help us build a broader sense of civic responsibility and, above all, a deeper commitment to nature.”
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