Canada broke ranks this week with the majority of a group of American nations it helped to create to deal with the spiraling crisis in Venezuela. 0:58Peru called for all members to back a motion repudiating "any type of action or declaration that implies military intervention or … threats or the use of violence." The holdouts were Canada and Venezuela's neighbours to its west and east, Colombia and Guyana. Although Global Affairs Canada has published on its website previous joint statements from the Lima Group that it has supported, Canada did not publicize its decision to refuse to endorse the statement opposing intervention. But the latest split between members of the Lima Group suggests that even those countries that agree Maduro has to go are split on how to make that happen.

Source: CBC News September 19, 2018 08:00 UTC