Venezuela crisis tops agenda for Americas summit in Mexico

CANCUN, Mexico — Foreign ministers from across the Americas gathered in Mexico on Monday with Venezuela’s ongoing political crisis foremost on the agenda.

Nearly 70 people have died, hundreds more have been injured and thousands have been detained in months of protests in the South American country, but so far the nations of the Western Hemisphere have been unable to reach consensus on the matter.

Even as diplomats convened in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, to protest against President Nicolas Maduro’s government.