The event comes 15 months after the Bolivarian Executive decided to suspend talks over the kidnapping and extradition to the United States of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who is still being held in a prison in the northern nation.
For months, the parties held “discrete, clandestine and constructive” meetings that led to this pact of a social nature, which includes the state’s bailout of $3 billion of the more than $20 billion seized from the country’s international financial system .
Getting this far was not easy for the Bolivarian Republic, which was faced with a declared war that included all sorts of strategies devised in the laboratories of Washington and its allies with the aim of overthrowing the legitimate constitutional government.
The South American nation was hit with a barrage of conspiratorial, seditious and criminal activities, which came to a head after the right-wing victory in the 2015 general election and led to the self-appointed interim government in 2019.
Plans included assassinating the President, including through the use of drones, and orchestrating acts of terrorism such as attempting to detonate bombs in the National Assembly and attacks on electrical infrastructure.
Added to this is the theft of companies such as Monómeros in Colombia and Citgo in the United States, the confiscation of their gold holdings in international banks and the use of more than 900 unilateral coercive measures.
What happened in Mexico cannot be separated from the national reality of Venezuela, which, according to Maduro, “lives in times of peace, dialogue, understanding, economic recovery and healing from the wounds of war and blockade”.
One element to consider is that the Bolivarian government’s talks are with that intransigent sector of the PU that has led to extreme violence, coup sponsorship and military intervention.
The authorities, including the leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, agree that the biggest beneficiaries of the deal are the people, which is why the funds saved will be invested in health, education, electricity and as compensation for the significant damage caused by the deal caused intense precipitation.
The above funding, managed by the United Nations under the agreement, will allow eight blood banks to be approved and ten maternal and child hospitals to be modernized and equipped, and 2,300 schools to be repaired and modernized with technology, official sources said. .
As Maduro said, the deal opens a new chapter for the country and now it’s about recovering the confiscated resources to invest in the people and then “we’ll see what other issues are discussed with that sector of the opposition be able”. signed a letter of intent in 2021.
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Caption: Jorge Rodríguez, head of the Venezuelan government delegation, stated that the funds will benefit the people.
Caption: The Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard (ci) and DagNylander (cd), representative of Norway, accompanied the negotiations.