Message from OAS Secretary General on Venezuela

The instruments of the Inter-American system oblige us to cooperate, but never to negotiate democracy, especially when we risk new tragedies with every day that passes, a family further torn apart and an ever greater violation of the guarantees of the people. Venezuela is experiencing a serious social and political crisis that is a product of the damage done to the institutions of the country. We have demanded from the international community, the hemispheric community and the Venezuelan government an end to the violence and repression, the freeing of political prisoners, the opening of a humanitarian channel to meet the basic needs of its people and for the return of democracy by the only possible and sovereign manner: a call for early general elections. More…