LatinNews Daily - 22 June 2017

Venezuela: President Nicolás Maduro has conducted a cabinet reshuffle as three of his ministers stepped down to seek a seat in the constituent assembly that the Maduro government is hoping to convene to draft a new constitution, which it hopes will help it resolve the country’s deep political crisis. The ministers leaving office were the foreign minister, Delcy Rodríguez; the minister for the presidency, Admiral Carmen Meléndez; and the labour minister, Francisco Torrealba. They have been replaced by, respectively, Samuel Moncada, Mayor General Carlos Osorio, and Néstor Ovalles. Rodríguez announced her departure from the cabinet at the closing of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) being held in Mexico, where Venezuela’s political crisis has been a major topic of discussion even though the OAS members failed to approve a resolution on Venezuela.

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