NEGOTIATORS for Venezuela’s pro-imperialist opposition accepted at the weekend that they would have to rejoin mediated talks in the Dominican Republic to have any role in April’s presidential election.

The decision ends days of speculation that the Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) coalition could abandon the negotiations after one of its biggest parties announced it was boycotting the talks.

“We are obliged to keep fighting in all arenas for electoral guarantees,” said Mud.