VENEZUELA’s government said on Saturday that it had attended talks with the rightwing opposition — which vehemently denied it.

Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez and two other United Socialist Party (PSUV) leaders attended indirect negotiations in the Dominican Republic on Friday.

The opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) coalition, which won a two-thirds majority in the national assembly in December, was represented by MPs Alfonso Marquina and Timoteo Zambrano.