"At least 43 people have died during weeks of clashes between government forces and opposition demonstrators angry at President Nicolas Maduro's handling of an economic and political crisis.
"This isn't getting better, it's getting worse, and what we are trying to say is the international community needs to say 'respect the human rights of your people' or this is going to go in the direction we've seen so many others go," US Ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters following Security Council talks.
The United States requested the closed-door consultations on Venezuela despite objections from some council members who insisted the crisis was not a threat to international security.
Haley said the US decision to raise Venezuela at the Security Council was aimed at conflict prevention and to ensure that the top UN body was paying attention to the crisis".
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017 ... ther-syria
As if we haven't got enough to worry about, now a civil war could break out in South America, not far from the United States. If one does break out in a country with as much oil as Venezuela does, it could not only severely damage the global economy and bring the continent to it's knees, but it could create another refugee situation not far from the United States.
What do you think, NSG? Is a civil war in Venezuela likely?