Weekly Report - 23 July 2026 (WR-26-29)

Venezuela’s political opposition is at risk of splitting into competing factions before the start of negotiations with President Delcy Rodríguez’s government on 1 August. The talks, in which the opposition is set to be represented by Dinorah Figuera, the president of the opposition’s parallel national assembly, are “doomed to fail” unless they involve opposition leader María Corina Machado, warned another leading opposition figure, Henrique Capriles Radonski, on 21 July.