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The U.S.-backed negotiations opened in early August between representatives of Venezuela’s interim government and an opposition delegation led by Dinorah Figuera. Maria Corina Machado, the country’s most prominent opposition leader and overwhelming winner of its 2024 opposition primary, was left outside the negotiating structure.