Nicolás Maduro proposes “Resuming dialogue” with the US

«I have always dialogued“, said Nicolás Maduro through his Twitter network. “If the United States government is willing to respect sovereignty and stop threatening Venezuela, we can resume dialogue.”he added.

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After that, Maduro conditioned possible contacts on “Compliance” of a memorandum of understanding, which was signed in September of last year following direct negotiations between Venezuela y States Joined in Qatar, in parallel to a process of dialogue between Chavismo and the opposition in Barbados on the road to the presidential elections.

For his part, the head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, mentioned in his statement that there is a “Overwhelming evidence» of the victory of the opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who ran for office for the political disqualification of the former deputy Maria Corina Machado.

As you may recall, the National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed after midnight on Sunday Maduro as president re-elected for a third six-year term, with 51% of the votes against 44% for his main rival. However, the opposition maintains that it has copies of more than 80% of the minutes and that González the distance obtained 67% of the votes.

In view of the above, Maduro shared a copy of Qatar’s MoU, which states that, “Following the holding of presidential elections and the inauguration of the duly elected president, the United States unblocks the assets of the Venezuelan government currently frozen. y “lift all sanctions.”

In view of this, the White House, had expressed its willingness to reconsider the sanctions imposed on Venezuelawhich include an embargo on the Caribbean country’s oil, gas and gold, should the talks take place «Free elections».