WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States (US) Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that he expected Venezuela’s political transition to occur in a matter of months, not years.

“It’s going to require some persistence and a little bit of patience – not years, but certainly of months and weeks,” Rubio told reporters.

Seven months after the capture of former leader Nicolas Maduro in a US military raid, delegates of interim President Delcy Rodríguez and opposition members are scheduled to hold their first round of talks this week in Caracas.