Venezuela crisis: All the latest updates

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President Nicolas Maduro has predicted a new foreign-led effort to mediate Venezuela's political crisis would produce a deal soon, but the opposition said it would not accept another time-wasting "show".
Both sides sent delegations to meet the Dominican Republic's president this week for a possible start to a negotiated solution.
"After weeks of conversations, we are close to an agreement of political co-existence of peace and sovereignty," Maduro said in a speech on Friday. "We're very near."
But the opposition insisted the talks in Santo Domingo were only "exploratory" and said it would not proceed without firm guarantees of democratic change. They want a date for the next presidential election, due by the end of 2018, with guarantees it will be free and fair, plue freedom for hundreds of jailed activists, a foreign humanitarian corridor, and respect for the opposition-led congress.
"If we don't have iron-clad guarantees ... that everything is leading to democratic change ... we won't take a step more," Julio Borges, the leader of the opposition-led congress, told reporters on Saturday, recalling failed 2016 Vatican-led talks. "We want to avoid a repeat of last year's show."