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Weekly Report - 07 June 2018 (WR-18-22)

VENEZUELA: Maduro’s overture overwhelmingly rejected

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro announced at the weekend that an unspecified number of prisoners would be released as his government seeks to lure the political opposition to the dialogue table with a view to regaining some kind of credibility at home and abroad in the wake of his controversial re-election on 20 May. Maduro’s move did not buy him any time. The opposition was unswayed and the Organization of American States (OAS) pushed through its first resolution on the Venezuelan crisis, condemning the presidential contest as illegitimate and taking the first step in a three-stage process to suspend Venezuela from the hemispheric body.

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