Since the beginning of the Bolivarian Government of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, in 2013, he has made 388 calls for dialogue in a continuous and repeated manner to the Venezuelan opposition, who ambiguously have sat at the table full of contradictions and then discourteously ignore the efforts made in this area by the Bolivarian Revolution.
In 2014, when the Venezuelan opposition agreed to sit for the first time with the Government of Nicolás Maduro, on national television and from the Miraflores Palace, all the political parties that converge in Venezuela entered the presidential house in a historic way, after a great tension product of the 2014 “guarimbas” (Riots), violent acts provoked by these very right-wing sectors in the country.
It is worth noting that the so-called Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD – Democratic Unity Board), agreed to go into dialogue after eight weeks of being recalled tirelessly by the Head of State. It was then that they agreed to participate in the National Dialogue for Peace.
“We are in the Miraflores Palace, in the meeting for Peace,” said Maduro when he began his address to the country and on the national radio and television network that lasted almost 6 hours, but by then the president of the Acción Democratica (rightwing) political party, Henry Ramos Allup announced that attending the dialogue in Miraflores will have “a political cost to the opposition”, which undoubtedly was a premonition, since each time a new meeting of the dialogue table was announced, it became evident even more the fractures and divisions from that sector of the opposition, where apparently they sometimes agree, and sometimes not.
In the same year, the opposition withdrew from the dialogue table, without any justification, after refusing to participate in the Truth Commission proposed by the National Executive.
After the Parliamentary elections of 2015, the opposition managed to obtain a parliamentary majority in the National Assembly, where President Nicolás Maduro once again called for dialogue for peace and reconciliation in the country.
Parallel to this, the leader of AD, Henry Ramos Allup, offered statements to the national media in which he affirmed that there was no possibility of dialogue between the opposition and the National Government.
In the year 2016, the Bolivarian Revolution managed to re-sit the opposition but this time invited representatives of the UnaSur, the former Presidents of the Government of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, of Panama, Manuel Torrijos and the President of the Dominican Republic, Manuel Fernández, as well as the representative of the Vatican Claudio Maria Celli.
Once again, the Democratic Unity Table abandoned the path of dialogue in December of that same year, without any reason.
After this unsuccessful attempt at dialogue, the first rapprochement between both parties was once again encouraged by Nicolás Maduro, now in the Dominican Republic and was scheduled for September 13, 2017, after the President of the Venezuelan Republic, for the sake of consolidate stability, accepted the invitation of the Former President of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the Dominican Government, chaired by Danilo Medina.
On that occasion, issues related to the sovereignty of the country, the repudiation of interventionist and interventionist actions against Venezuela by the United States, as well as the timetable and electoral guarantees for the regional and municipal elections, were discussed. This have been complied with by the Bolivarian Government.
In that meeting it was also agreed that the representatives of the National Government and the Venezuelan opposition would hold a new meeting on September 27, but this time accompanied by a commission made up of the countries of Mexico, Chile, Bolivia and Nicaragua.
For the second exploratory meeting, the Venezuelan opposition refused to attend, again.
It is demonstrated that the revolutionary government led by Nicolás Maduro is focused on promoting peace, reconciliation and national dialogue, reiterating the willingness to talk and reach agreements with adverse sectors, but in a tolerant manner, for the resurgence of a better. more sovereign, free and democratic Venezuela.
