As foreign representatives gathered
Tuesday on Margarita Island off Venezuela's northeastern coast to participate
in the 17th Non-Aligned Movement Summit, President Nicolas Maduro's opponents
did not ease pressure on him. "We ask your governments to express
solidarity with the Venezuelan people in these times of uncertainty and
calamity," opposition leader Henrique Capriles said in an open letter to
summit participants, urging them to speak out against Maduro. Venezuela has
been plagued by triple-digit inflation and a severe shortage of commodities for
months amid a world oil price slump which has crippled the economy of the
oil-rich country. This has worsened Maduro's standing, as his government was
seen as having failed to provide concrete responses to these problems, tumbling
the president's approval ratings. More…
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