Lawmakers of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's ruling party and members of civil society meet in Congress to discuss a timetable for the electoral body to call national elections. The meeting comes after the Supreme Court, loyal to Maduro, upheld a 15-year ban on opposition primary winner Maria Corina Machado, among other opposition figures, which many see as a violation of a mediated deal reached in Barbados to hold a free and fair vote in 2024. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES