Maduro becomes talk of summit by not showing up

Leaders of Ibero-American nations met Saturday as a political and humanitarian crisis deepened in Venezuela, the summit overshadowed by a guessing game over whether their Venezuelan colleague would show.

He didn't. Reporters even trooped to the airport in this Caribbean city to await Nicolas Maduro.

His attendance had been expected after Peru's president laid down a gauntlet of sorts. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said he would seek consensus for Venezuela's suspension from the Organization of American States for violating its democratic charter.

And though talk of Venezuela was the main course at the leader's private lunch, they issued no related statement.

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