A proposal by beleagured Vennezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to hold a peace conference
trying to difuse the volatile current situation, has fallen on stony ground.
Listen
to the report by James Blears...
Worryingly,
the level of antipathy and hostility, is matched by deep and currently unbridgeable
mistrust. The main oppostion coaltion has dismissed President Nicolas Maduro's peace
conference proposal, as a sham and a farce. Principal oppostion leader Henrique Capriles
terms the talks as a snippit of political opportunism by President Maduro and Capriles
insists the Government is already extinct. The Church and business leaders have already
agreed to take part.
Meanwhile, Lilian Tintori-the Wife of recently arrested
opposition activist Leopoldo Lopez, has been holding a rally in the Capitol Caracas.
It's likely that any sort of agreement would have to include his unconditional release.
President
Maduro has announced that the death toll from the unrest has risen to 50. THE crisis
flared up more than two weeks ago. The prevailing situation is best described as polorized.