Venezuela crisis

CARACAS: Sanctions have worsened Venezuela's crippling economic and political crisis, the UN human rights chief said Wednesday, as Washington warned it may expand measures targeting President Nicolas Maduro´s socialist government.

UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said sanctions had exacerbated the crisis but also slammed Maduro´s "violations of civil and political rights" in her annual report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. and Ecuador.