Venezuela urged to accept migration crisis humanitarian aid

A group of Latin American countries signed a resolution on Tuesday, September 4, urging Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro to accept humanitarian aid to "alleviate" the country's migration crisis. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled an economic collapse in Venezuela that has resulted in food and medicine shortages as well as failing public services. Following two days of meetings hosted by Ecuador, the signatories called for "the creation of a humanitarian assistance mechanism that will allow the critical situation to be alleviated" and would target "the source" of "affected citizens." More…