President Connolly says recent lives lost in Venezuela ‘appalling’ and ‘overlooked’

Irish President Catherine Connolly has called the recent loss of lives in Venezuela as ‘appalling’. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

The recent loss of lives in Venezuela is “appalling” and “often overlooked” when the US raid on the capital is discussed, President Catherine Connolly has said.

Then-Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were taken from their home in Caracas at the weekend in a night-time raid by the US at the weekend which involved strikes on the country, in which more than 115 people were killed.