President Nicolás Maduro and the leaders of a coalition of opposition political parties agreed on Tuesday to take part in talks that could help defuse tensions that have arisen during two months of anti-government protests.
The agreement was brokered by a group of South American foreign ministers meeting in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, and the talks will be carried out with the participation of the foreign ministers of Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador, along with a representative of the Vatican.
It was not clear when the talks would begin, but an opposition leader said the first meeting would occur in public. Venezuela is marked by a bitter political division, and the agreement to talk is a promising shift, although there appears to be little willingness on either side to give ground.
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