The Venezuelan council of the bishops’ conference said in a statement released July 27 stating the referendum is illegal and will only increase the suffering of the Venezuelan people.
Upcoming referendum will only worsen crisis, Venezuelan bishops say
Venezuela risks becoming Caribbean ‘North Korea,’ former leaders say
Jorge Quiroga, former president of Bolivia, stated the election of President Nicolas Maduro’s friends as a ‘constituent assembly’ “will install a Soviet state in Venezuela, liquidate democracy, end the Congress, cancel elections and turn Venezuela into a sort of Caribbean ‘North Korea.”