‘Two presidents in four years’… People must be confused, where are you from?

In Venezuela, where the “one roof, two presidents” crisis has been going on for four years, the government and opposition parties are negotiating to find a solution.

Reuters reported on the 23rd (local time) that the government of Nicolás Maduro Venezuela and opposition leader Juan Guaidó ‘interim president’ have agreed to set up a negotiating table on domestic and foreign political issues on the 25th and 26th.

The talks appear to have ended with the mediation of Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro.

President Petro Colombia wrote on Twitter that “dialogue between the Maduro government and the opposition will resume”.

President Petro, who restored diplomatic relations with Venezuela in September after more than three years, leads Colombia’s first leftist government.

The meeting between the ruling and the opposition parties in Venezuela comes about a year after the talks in Mexico last October.

Reuters diagnosed that both sides are expected, during the talks, to discuss conditions for the release of political prisoners, including the 2024 presidential election.

As such, Venezuela has had two presidents for the third year in January 2019, when Guaidó took the presidency.

Maduro was re-elected in the 2018 presidential election, but Guaidó did not recognize him as president, saying it was the “result of a fraudulent election,” and declared that he would take over as interim president in January 2019 .Moreover, more than 60 countries, including the United States, which opposed the reappointment of the Maduro regime, have begun to recognize Guaidó as the leader of Venezuela.

In this way, power seemed to pass to Guaidó, but as the attempted military coup failed in April 2019, the opposition quickly disintegrated, and Guaidó also lost a lot of trust and is now held in a quiet period.

The Maduro government, which is almost isolated from the United States and the international community, is trying to break new ground to solve the serious economic difficulties by relying on the influence of leftist governments that have recently grown in Latin America.

Local media said attention is focused on whether the summit will act as a stepping stone to ease sanctions on crude oil exports.

In fact, Reuters predicted that the United States could authorize the expansion of Chevron’s oil business in Venezuela if the negotiations bear fruit.