Venezuela talks off in row over fugitive ex-policeman's death


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  • Friday, 19 Jan 2018

FILE PHOTO: Delegates of President Nicolas Maduro's government and Venezuela's opposition coalition meet for a round of talks, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic January 12, 2018. REUTERS/Roberto Guzman/File Photo

CARACAS (Reuters) - Talks between Venezuela's government and the opposition coalition foundered on Thursday after the opposition denied providing information that led to the death of a rogue former policeman and six other anti-government militants.

Oscar Perez, a photogenic former pilot who once starred in an action film, was killed on Monday along with six others in a police raid on a remote house.

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