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UN Rights Chief Urges Political Dialogue in Venezuela

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - United Nations High Commissioner for human rights Michelle
   Bachelet warns Venezuela's social and economic crisis will not go away
   until its profound political standoff is resolved through government
   negotiations with political opponents. Bachelet presented her latest
   update on the human rights situation in Venezuela Thursday to the U.N.
   Human Rights Council in Geneva.
   U.N. agencies report more than four million Venezuelans have fled
   poverty, hunger, human rights violations and political persecution in
   recent years. The situation has created the largest recorded refugee
   and migration crisis in the Americas. Most have sought refuge in
   countries in Latin America.

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