Weekly Report - 22 May 2014 (WR-14-20)

The foreign ministers of Brazil, Ecuador and Colombia, Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, Ricardo Patiño and María Ángela Holguín, departed Caracas on 20 May having failed to convince the Venezuelan opposition to return to the round table dialogue with the government led by President Nicolás Maduro. The troika, along with the Papal Nuncio in Venezuela, are mediating the dialogue on behalf of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur). “The foreign ministers and the Papal Nuncio hope that a date for the next meeting is fixed as soon as possible”, was the most Unasur could muster up in a terse statement.

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