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Weekly Report - 30 August 2018 (WR-18-34)

REGION: Venezuelan exodus: a failure of regional diplomacy?

According to Luis Almagro, the general secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS), the stream of Venezuelans fleeing their country could turn out to be “the greatest exodus in the history of the Western Hemisphere”. Others have compared the phenomenon to the European refugee crisis that commenced in 2015. What is clear is that the exodus is testing regional diplomatic organisations up to, and perhaps even beyond, the point of destruction.

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