Venezuela’s Maduro Meets Pope Francis as Vatican Joins Talks
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met with Pope Francis Monday and received a blessing for the South American nation, as the Vatican emerges as a key player in a new dialogue process starting up amid an intensifying political crisis.
Maduro, who’s been on a tour of oil producing countries including Saudi Arabia and Qatar over the past week, arrived in Rome on Monday and had a private meeting with the pope at the Vatican, the Information Ministry said in an e-mailed statement.