President Donald Trump’s bold decision to approve the mission to arrest former dictator Nicolás Maduro created the “path to hope” that Venezuelans are cautiously taking toward holding elections, Dinorah Figuera, the surgeon and former lawmaker representing the opposition in talks with post-Maduro socialists, told Breitbart News this week.
\n\nFiguera has risen to abrupt prominence in the past year after being chosen to lead the negotiations intended to build trustworthy institutions necessary for free and fair elections, such as the Supreme Court and National Electoral Council (CNE). Once a lawmaker in the National Assembly, Venezuela’s federal legislature, Figuera was forced into exile after advocating for justice in the case of Fernando Albán, a Caracas councilman who was arrested and swiftly killed in 2018 after denouncing human rights abuses before the United Nations. The Maduro regime insisted his death in the custody of the repressive secret police, the SEBIN, was a “suicide,” a claim inconsistent with the facts.
\n\nEight years later, Figuera was working in facilities for the elderly in Spain, rebuilding her life and that of her family, when the State Department called and asked her to represent the true National Assembly in talks with the regime. Venezuela has not had…
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