Venezuela opposition seeks international support for 'democratic agenda'


  • World
  • Friday, 12 May 2017

President of the National Assembly and deputy of the Venezuelan coalition of opposition parties (MUD) Julio Borges talks to the media at the Congress in Lima, Peru, May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo

LIMA (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition is asking other Latin American countries to pressure President Nicolas Maduro's government into implementing a "democratic agenda," opposition leader Julio Borges said on Thursday.

Borges, the president of Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly, travelled to Lima to meet with Peruvian legislators and President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who has been one of Maduro's most vocal critics among Latin American leaders.

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