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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 19 January 2018

VENEZUELA: Maduro bolstered by opposition rift

Divisions within Venezuela’s political opposition are playing into the hands of President Nicolás Maduro. As a new round of the national dialogue process being held between the Maduro administration and representatives of the opposition coalition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD) gets underway in the Dominican Republic, key opposition figures criticised the composition of the new MUD leadership committee in the national assembly as weak and ineffectual. They also slammed the dialogue process as pointless, granting time and space to the government just when it ought to be on the back foot, with spontaneous protests, and looting, erupting in different points around the country over shortages of food and basic goods.

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