FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence talks to reporters after meeting with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ambassadors at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia April 20, 2017. REUTERS/Beawiharta
QUITO (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence urged Latin American countries on Thursday to help isolate crisis-stricken Venezuela, an ideological adversary of Washington that is struggling under a severe and prolonged economic crisis.
Pence met with Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno as part of a tour of Latin America that has included meetings with Venezuelans who left the socialist country because it is so difficult to obtain food or medicine.
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