 "The Washington Post" said that Requesens "insist[ed] that Maduro free jailed protesters and meet other preconditions" before he would meet with him.He believed then that asking for Maduro's removal as President was a "dead end" and said that the "strategy of escalating confrontation will just give the government the chance to discredit us and continue with more repression".According to "The Washington Post", he was more like Henrique Capriles in "tone and strategy", and more moderated than the "hard-line wing" of opposition from Maria Corina Machado and Leopoldo López.