What can Canada and the world do about Venezuela?

Canada and the international community can play a role fostering effective negotiations between government and opposition, and strongly pushing for the opening of a humanitarian channel.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, pictured. Since March 2017 when the partisan Supreme Court ruled to dissolve the opposition-controlled National Assembly, Venezuela has been paralyzed by street protests, heavy-handed repression and confrontation. The Constituent Assembly is bound to deepen this crisis if spaces for truly plural negotiation are not created. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY ANTULIO ROSALES, MASAYA LLAVANERAS BLANCO

August 14, 2017

On Aug. 4, a National Constituent Assembly was sworn-in in Venezuela despite sustained national and international efforts to forge alternative negotiated solutions to the deepening political and economic crisis in the country.

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