Venezuela/Colombia rift: UNASUR unable to reach consensus calls for summit
The closest they could get: Venezuelan Maduro and Colombia’s Bermudez with Patiño in the middle The UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) Foreign Affairs ministerial meeting concluded Thursday night in Quito without an agreement on how to solve the diplomatic rift between Venezuela and Colombia.
Colombia claims Venezuela at last moment walked out from consensus document
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