Venezuela\u2019s government and a section of the opposition plan to hold talks, backed by the US.<\/p>\n
The last seven months have seen Washington insert itself into Venezuela\u2019s politics and economy.<\/p>\n
It started with US forces capturing President Nicolas Maduro in January and taking him to New York to face drug-trafficking charges.<\/p>\n
The US now determines how Venezuela accesses its oil revenues \u2013 the mainstay of its economy.<\/p>\n
It is backed by interim leader Delcy Rodriquez \u2013 while brokering talks between the Venezuelan government and opposition factions.<\/p>\n
But high-profile opposition figure Maria Corina Machado has been sidelined.<\/p>\n
So, what can the talks achieve and what is Washington seeking to get?<\/p>\n
Presenter:<\/strong> Frankie McCamley<\/p>\n Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n Elias Ferrer \u2013 Analyst focusing on political economy and founder of Orinoco Research<\/p>\n Vanessa Neumann \u2013 Founder and CEO of Asymmetrica and a former official representative for Venezuelan opposition figure, Juan Guaido<\/p>\n Charles Shapiro \u2013 Former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Venezuela\u2019s government and a section of the opposition plan to hold talks, backed by the US. The last seven months have seen Washington insert itself into Venezuela\u2019s politics and economy. It started with US forces capturing President Nicolas Maduro in January and taking him to New York to face drug-trafficking charges. The US now determines … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}