Few foreign leaders attend international summit in Venezuela

Fewer than a dozen world leaders attended a meeting of a large Cold War-era bloc in Venezuela this weekend after the struggling nation spent more than $120 million to wine and dine international heads of state. Venezuela spent millions preparing for the Non-Aligned Movement Saturday and Sunday despite widespread shortages of food and triple-digit inflation. In 2012, 35 world leaders attended the last summit of the Cold War-era group in Iran. The Venezuelan government did not release a list of attendees. More…