00:00U.S. State Secretary Marco Rubio says that there is no artificial timeline for elections to be
00:06held in Venezuela. According to him, it is hard to hold elections when many of the people that
00:12may participate in the process have either been in jail or are still overseas.
00:18It's hard to have elections when many of the people that may want to participate in
00:21have been in jail or are still overseas. So I do think that as we enter this recovery phase,
00:27which I think we've done a pretty good job working with the interim authorities on the
00:32stabilization phase. You have not seen mass migration, you have not seen civil war, you have
00:36not seen violence. On the contrary, you've seen some real stability on the ground and you've seen
00:41a growing in productivity among their key sectors. I think now we're increasingly entering into this
00:48phase of recovery and part of that is a national reconciliation.
00:52Interim leader Delcy Rodriguez took power last month after U.S. forces seized President
00:57Nicolas Maduro. Venezuela's ruling party-controlled parliament has since approved an amnesty bill
01:03to free political prisoners, but human rights organisations said the bill is limited as it
01:08does not drop their charges which has left them in the legal limbo.
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