Left increasingly isolated by a crushing
political and economic crisis, Venezuela will seek the support of old friends
when it hosts a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement this weekend. Leaders from
the 120-nation group, which was founded more than 50 years ago amid the Cold War,
will gather Saturday and Sunday on the Caribbean island of Margarita, where
Venezuela will take over the movement's rotating presidency from Iran. Venezuelan
President Nicolas Maduro will be hoping to show he still has plenty of allies
despite the catastrophic situation he faces at home: a brutal recession that
has unleashed shortages of food and medicine, coupled with mounting pressure
from the center-right opposition for a referendum on removing him from power. More…
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