MÉRIDA, Mexico – The U.S. government has reportedly offered amnesty and other benefits to the Chavista leadership in secret talks in exchange for recognizing Edmundo González as the legitimate winner of the elections in Venezuela.
According to sources consulted by The Wall Street Journal, The Biden administration would be putting “everything on the table” as long as Maduro hands over power.
The US is reportedly offering pardons to Maduro and several of his officials, but so far the regime’s response has been to dismiss them.
The talks are said to be taking place virtually between Jorge Rodríguez, president of the Venezuelan Congress and one of the most visible figures of Chavismo, and Daniel P. Erikson, member of the White House National Security Council in charge of Venezuela.
The US election in November has been set as the deadline for negotiations and so far the US has no plans to ask Western oil companies to leave Venezuela, the report added.
Maria Corina Machado calls for a global march against fraud
While the electoral conflict in Venezuela is not resolved, Chavismo is entrenched with maneuvers in the Supreme Court without yet showing the minutes.
The NGO Foro Penal says that as of Saturday, 1,303 people remain in prison, including 170 women, 116 teenagers, 14 indigenous people and 16 people with disabilities.
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado called for a “great global protest” next Saturday, August 17, to defend the election results.
“Find the voting certificate for your center at http://resultadosconvzla.com, print it and bring it to the rally in your city. Let the world see, with the certificates in hand, that we will not let ourselves be robbed. Share this image with all your Venezuelan friends because that day we will unite inside and outside Venezuela,” he added.
The opposition to Nicolás Maduro’s regime will give details on Sunday of how the protest will be organized.
“We are going to be calling for a huge event where everyone (…) has to see the strength, determination, the decision that we Venezuelans have made, that there is no turning back,” Machado had announced on Friday.
On Saturday, opposition candidate Edmundo González called on Nicolás Maduro to stop “the violence and persecution” and to immediately release “all compatriots arbitrarily detained.”
“Enough of persecution and violence, enough of trying to spread terror, enough of disrespecting the will of Venezuelans to change. Accept what our people have expressed and let us all begin to get our country out of this crisis,” said González in a statement from X.
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