Venezuela Neighbors Push Back Against Use of Military Force
- Governments of Colombia, Peru say they want peaceful solution
- Meeting comes after a weekend of violence and sabre-rattling
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A group of Latin American governments said they oppose a military intervention to end the crisis in Venezuela, opening an apparent breach with the U.S., which has declined to rule it out.
The U.S., the Venezuelan opposition and governments from across Latin America and Europe are meeting in Bogota today after a failed attempt to deliver humanitarian aid to the hungry nation led to a weekend of violence on the Colombian-Venezuelan border. President Nicolas Maduro’s security forces repelled the food and medicine, saying the initiative was a pretext for invasion.