{"id":109226,"date":"2018-02-08T10:30:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=109226"},"modified":"2018-02-08T10:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T14:30:55","slug":"rodriguez-zapatero-insists-on-venezuelan-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/02\/08\/rodriguez-zapatero-insists-on-venezuelan-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero insists on Venezuelan talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109208\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109208\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Jose-Rodriguez-Zapatero-MIREX-300x247.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero \/ MIREX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The former President of the Spanish government, Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, called for some serious thinking by the opposition and the Venezuelan government in order to achieve an agreement to end the crisis in that nation. The talks, that had been taking place in the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Santo Domingo, were an attempt to reduce the tensions and crisis in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez Zapatero said: \u201cIt is absolutely necessary that an agreement be reached,\u201d as he entered the Ministry of Foreign Relations on 7 February 2018, for the continuing of the talks. He pointed out that the Venezuelan opposition presented a list of observations to the proposed agreement. These points include guarantees regarding the electoral process, participation of international observers, a new date for the elections and several other points.<\/p>\n<p>When the Spanish leader was asked about the consequences of not signing an agreement, he replied, \u201cIf you think about this for just 15 seconds you realize that the alternative to an agreement is extremely negative for the people of Venezuela and for Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joining Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero at the talks was the Bolivian Minister of Foreign Affairs, the ambassador from Chile in the Dominican Republic and the Minister of Foreign Relations of the Dominican Republic, Miguel Vargas.<\/p>\n<p>8 February 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former President of the Spanish government, Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, called for some serious thinking by the opposition and the Venezuelan government in order to achieve an agreement to end the crisis in that nation. The talks, that had been taking place in the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Santo Domingo, were an attempt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/02\/08\/rodriguez-zapatero-insists-on-venezuelan-talks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}