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August 9, 2018

In Colombia, Nikki Haley Escalates Anti-Venezuela Rhetoric
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Colombia has recognized Palestine as a free, independent and sovereign
state. The announcement by the Palestinian embassy in Bogotá came on the
same day as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley visited
the Colombia-Venezuela border, and escalated the Trump administration's
rhetoric demanding the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Nicolás Maduro: "This is a crisis where the region has not been as loud
and active as we would like to see. We think they need to do more. The
international community, the world in general needs to realize that we
have a dictator in Venezuela that is doing everything to protect himself
and sacrificing all of the Venezuelan people to do it."



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