VENEZUELA –  Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro tuesday sought to shore up international support for his leadership, but at the same time insisted that his Government would not tolerate any outside interference in the affairs of his crisis-torn country.

Maduro made the appeal in a near four-hour press conference skyped to Venezuela’s embassies across the world, including the mission in Kingston, even as the Opposition urged the public to defy a state of emergency he decreed over a nation sapped by food shortages and a collapsing economy.(Jamaica Observer/photo: thepeninsulaqatar.com)…[+]