Card Parolin: 'Vatican seeks democratic solution to
Venezuela crisis'
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary
of State, on Sunday said Pope Francis and the Vatican have "tried very
hard" to find a solution to the crisis in Venezuela, which he said must be
"peaceful and democratic".
Cardinal Parolin told the ANSA news agency that Vatican
efforts sought "to help all without distinction" and were meant
"to recall each person to their own responsibilities".
"The criteria for any solution must be only the good of
the people," he said.
At least thirteen people were killed in Venezuela on Sunday,
during which voters cast their ballots for a Constituent Assembly proposed by
President Nicolás Maduro.
A 39-year old lawyer and candidate for the Constituent
Assembly was shot to death at his home in the South Eastern town of Cuidad
Bolivia.
To the West in Talchira State, a thirteen-year old and a
seventeen-year old, as well as a soldier, were shot dead in separate incidents.
Seven police officers were injured and their motorcycles
scorched when a homemade bomb exploded in an eastern district
of the capital, Caracas.
According to polling specialists at Datanalisis, more than
seventy percent of Venezuelans oppose the Constituent Assembly.
International condemnation of the vote has come from the
United States, the European Union, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and
Mexico.
Unabashed, President Nicolás Maduro is determined to
consolidate and tighten the government's grip on power by holding this vote,
which appears to be dividing rather than ruling.
Yet its powers to rewrite the Venezuelan Constitution and
dissolve the opposition dominated National Assembly appear absolute.
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