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Weekly Report - 15 December 2022 (WR-22-50)

VENEZUELA: Maduro’s son dampens hopes for constructive dialogue

Three weeks on from the announcement that dialogue between the Venezuelan government and the opposition would resume [WR-22-48], there have been no updates from either side on when the talks might be held. Nor has there been any confirmation from the United Nations (UN) that it will indeed be brokering the release of some US$3bn in foreign assets to address Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis, as the government claims. President Nicolás Maduro’s son, Nicolás Maduro Guerra, cast further doubts over the prospects for a breakthrough on 9 December when he said that the government’s negotiating delegation will insist on the release of Alex Saab, the financier awaiting trial in the US for alleged money laundering offences.

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