EU Mission Heads to Venezuela to Meet Dueling Political Factions
- International Contact Group to offer proposals to end crisis
- Agency works to faciliate elections, humanitarian assistance
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
Photographer: Juan Barreto/AFP
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Representatives from a European Union initiative to resolve Venezuela’s simmering crisis are set to arrive in Caracas for meetings with the nation’s warring factions, according to National Assembly Vice President Stalin Gonzalez.
A mission from the International Contact Group, comprising eight EU member states and four Latin American countries, will present proposals to members of President Nicolas Maduro’s autocratic regime and the opposition Thursday and Friday. The plans to end the nation’s bitter impasse haven’t been made public, but the ICG said in a statement this month that they contained “concrete options for a peaceful and democratic solution.”