The two warring camps in Venezuela have been sitting in Oslo at a table and are willing to work on a solution to the crisis. But the results so far.

By Anne-Katrin Mellmann, ARD-Studio, Mexico city

The call to Rebellion by opposition leader Juan Guaidó a month ago, went that opened the door to a dialogue with the socialist government. Under the mediation of Norway in Oslo initially, separate meetings with the parties to the Conflict had taken place. This week was also the first direct negotiations.

the Meeting of the warring Venezuelan stock would hardly be able to continue to take place In Oslo, almost 13 hours of flight away, the counterparty of the Opposition and the government, brokered by Norwegian diplomats, for the first time directly negotiated.

wind from the own rows

The self-proclaimed Venezuelan interim President Juan Guaidó at a rally in Caracas (archive).

the distance to The home took advantage of the leader of the opposition Guaidó. For that you have to negotiate at all, is awkward for him. Much against the wind it gets from within its own ranks, because thus far, he had refused, in direct talks to join before its conditions are not fulfilled: the end of the unlawful usurpation of Power, that is to say the resignation of Nicolás Maduro, interim government and free and fair elections. Therefore, he navigates around the concept of negotiations in his public appearances: “Norway wants to convey and has invited us to it. This means that This is not a negotiation and no dialogue. We are not allowed to use the word choice of the regime.”