Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez said on Wednesday that the country will quit the Organization of American States over pressure from the bloc about the Venezuelan government’s response to a violent political crisis. “Tomorrow, as President Nicolas Maduro has instructed, we will present a letter of complaint to the OAS and we will begin a process that will take 24 months,” Rodriguez said in a televised address. The OAS, a Washington-based diplomatic grouping, has voiced concern about the state of democracy in Venezuela, where Maduro is resisting calls that he be removed from office. Twenty-eight people have been killed this month alone in anti-government protests.
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