Mainly based on ensuring electoral and political guarantees, defending the assets abroad and supporting the historic, sovereign and inalienable rights over the Guayana Esequiba, the commitments strengthen and express the will of the vast majority of Venezuelans.

They also show that in spite of the time of political disagreement and polarization during different periods of the Bolivarian Revolution, there is a will to overcome differences through dialogue and to use the electoral process to achieve reconciliation.

As expressed by the Government in a press release on Tuesday night, this is the ‘only way to solve the differences among Venezuelans,’ but without internal interference and within the framework of participative democracy, especially when there is evidence of the complicity of the PU with the United States.

It cannot be ignored that the PU is considered by the Government the most extreme sector of the national right wing, and it has played a leading role in violence (through guarimbas – roadblocks), attacks on President Nicolás Maduro and the call for foreign intervention.

It has to be mentioned the theft of assets abroad that are worth several million dollars, as its ringleaders enjoy looting abroad in countries such as the United States and Spain, and are directly responsible for the implementation of more than 930 unilateral coercive measures.

That is why, the Government pointed out that the negotiations focused ‘on healing the social wounds caused by the illegitimate economic aggression,’ which collectively punished the entire population without distinction of political or social classes.

With these agreements, Venezuela takes another step forward on the road to end the ‘criminal unilateral coercive measures’ taken against the people, and the recovery of the welfare state achieved by the Bolivarian Revolution, according to the press release issued by Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez.

Maduro himself assured on social networks, after the signing of the agreements, that it has not been easy to pave the way to ‘move forward little by little,’ and thanked the ‘heroic people’ for their conscience and strength.

The agreements penned on Tuesday by the head of the official delegation, Jorge Rodríguez, and of the PU, Gerardo Blyde, were mediated and followed up by Norway, Brazil, the Netherlands, Russia and Mexico.

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