Venezuela's Maduro Admits to Humanitarian Crisis - Calls on UN for Help

Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro admitted Friday on live television the country has a shortage of medicines which necessitates help from the United Nations. “I request the support of the United Nations to regularize the situation with medicines,” a sheepish Maduro said during a televised event, only one day after inaugurating the “Venezuela Potencia” industrial and science fair, a government effort meant to portray the oil-rich country as a regional powerhouse. “I have asked for support from the United Nations in order to tend to the social and economic wounds that the economic war has inflicted on our people, as well as the abrupt fall in oil prices, in order to regularize everything that has to do with medicines and in order to strengthen the health care systems,” Maduro said. More…