Maduro visited Pope

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Has Monday paid a surprise visit to the Vatican City and talked to the pope.

In a statement, the Vatican called it the privéonderhoud with the Catholic prelate ' took place in the context of the alarming situation in which Venezuela finds the political, economic and social crisis that the entire population severely to the test. '

Francis, from Argentina, urged Maduro to ' brave to choose the path of sincere and constructive dialogue '. The stopover Maduro in Rome, during a tour of oil-producing countries, was not announced in advance.