A volunteer holding a ballot in Caracas, Venezuela, October 2023 Leonardo Fernandez Viloria / Reuters
A Power-Sharing Deal Is the Only Way to Resolve the Country’s Political Conflict
Last month, the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the country’s largest opposition coalition resumed negotiationsto address Venezuela’s decades-long crisis. Maduro, who succeeded Hugo Chávez as president in 2013, has rebuffed opposition attempts to remove him from office as Venezuela slid into economic and humanitarian catastrophe. In a first step toward a political solution, at an October 17 meeting in Barbados, the delegations signed a set of agreements establishing plans for a competitive presidential election in 2024. Although the United States is not formally a party to these negotiations, Washington has indicated that it would ease the
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