Economics
OAS Meets to Discuss Venezuela as Economic Crisis Deepens
- Council to assess threats to country’s ‘constitutional order’
- Maduro met senior U.S. envoy Shannon in Caracas on Wednesday
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The Organization of American States will meet Thursday to discuss the deepening crisis in Venezuela, where the opposition is pushing forward with efforts to activate a recall referendum of President Nicolas Maduro amid acute shortages and sporadic looting.
The meeting of the OAS’s Permanent Council comprising its active member states will assess a report by Secretary-General Luis Almagro, citing an “alteration of the constitutional order” that “gravely affected” the country’s democracy. The council could activate its charter and initiate a process potentially leading to Venezuela’s suspension.