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Venezuela's Guaido: 'Never' a Good Moment to Negotiate with Maduro

Reuters

   CARACAS - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Tuesday that
   there would "never" be a good moment to negotiate with President
   Nicolas Maduro's "dictatorship," ruling out an expected new round of
   talks to find an exit from the country's crisis.

   Guaido and Maduro had both sent representatives to Oslo in May for
   discussions that Norway's government had encouraged, but they were
   unable to reach any agreement. On Saturday, people familiar with the
   talks told Reuters that talks would restart this week.

   Guaido on Tuesday said there had been "no official statement that we
   would attend a new round" of dialogue.

   "It is never going to be a good moment to mediate... with kidnappers,
   human rights violators, and a dictatorship," Guaido told reporters at
   the opposition-controlled National Assembly legislature, which he
   heads.

   Few details have been released about the talks in Oslo between
   representatives of Maduro and Guaido, who assumed a rival presidency in
   January and denounces Maduro as an illegitimate usurper who has
   overseen a five-year recession.

   Guaido's comments came as the opposition expressed outrage over the
   death last week of Venezuelan navy captain Rafael Acosta in military
   custody. The captain's wife and rights groups accuse Maduro's
   government of torturing Acosta and refusing to clarify the
   circumstances of his death.
   

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