Diplomats [not really]: Europeans weigh [blockade of] Venezuela's [trade]

Steady progress is being made on building a solid legal case [?!] for [ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS], but the main obstacle is the uncertain impact it could have on a mediation effort by Norway between representatives of Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaidó, the sources added.

NEW! "Oslo talks" host concept of "human rights" accords, fail, as is the custom

After two rounds of meetings in Norway, the opposition had not agreed by Saturday to a third round scheduled to begin next week in Barbados, three diplomats told AP. Guaidó ... has pledged not to return to the negotiating table until Maduro is ready to call early presidential elections.

The Swedish government also confirmed Friday that it hosted talks this week between major powers with interests in Venezuela. The talks in Stockholm were not attended by either side in the Venezuelan power struggle but did include diplomats from Russia -- Maduro's main financial and military backer -- as well as Enrique Iglesias, the new EU envoy for Venezuela.

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Underscoring that strategy, Lilian Tintori, the wife of prominent Venezuelan opposition activist Leopoldo López, on Friday met with Spain's foreign minister and called on the country and the EU to tighten restrictions and increase "pressure on the cruel dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro."

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