Catholic bishops in Venezuela have
accused the country's government of failing to solve "serious
problems" including shortages of food and medicine as well as providing
freedom and security to the citizens of the South American nation and called
for an to "repression", according to a statement released late last
week. Catholic news agency Agenzia Fides reports that the statement released by
the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela on Friday concludes a decision by
President Nicolas Maduro, announced amid ongoing mass protests against his
regime in the country this week, to convene what he has called a
"constituent assembly" to reform the constitution as
"unnecessary and dangerous" for the country's democracy. "The
proposal for a constituent assembly seems to re-present the 2007 reform that
was rejected by the people in a consultative referendum that same year,"
the bishops said in the statement. More…
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