bureaucracy more difficult,” Elliott Abrams, the U.S. special representative on Venezuela, told The Washington Post Sunday. The U.S.-backed opposition led by Juan Guaidó is boycotting the December vote, which it argues will be manipulated and used by Maduro to consolidate power. AD“If the regime agrees to postpone [the election] and does so in a deal with Borrell to get European monitoring, [Borrell] won’t want to fail,” Abrams said. officials told the opposition that Maduro’s side appeared reluctant to postpone the vote, but held out the “tiny” possibility of a delay. “I do think that there is a component of the [European] mission that is anti-U.S., but we need the E.U.

Source: Washington Post September 27, 2020 22:30 UTC