CARACAS/PRAIA—Venezuela on Saturday said it would suspend negotiations with the opposition that were set to resume this weekend. The announcement was made by Socialist party legislator Jorge Rodriguez, who heads the Maduro regime’s negotiating team. Rodriguez said the Venezuelan government would not attend the talks set to begin on Sunday after Cape Verde extradited Colombian businessman Alex Saab, a Venezuelan envoy who is close to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, to the United States on money laundering charges. The Maduro regime in September named Saab—who was arrested in June 2020 when his plane stopped in Cape Verde to refuel—as a member of its negotiating team in talks with the opposition in Mexico, where the two sides are looking to solve their political crisis. Rodriguez, reading from a statement, called the decision to suspend negotiations “an expression of our deepest protest against the brutal aggression against the person and the investiture of …