Warning on Venezuela travel

6 January 2003

BERLIN - Germany's Foreign Office issued a warning Monday to citizens not to travel to Venezuela because of rioting there.

There have been lower-grade cautions in the past, but the advisory raised Berlin's official warning to the top level.

The Foreign Office said all Germans without pressing reason to be there should leave Venezuela. Berlin estimated about 8,000 German nationals were living in Venezuela, most of them long term and with dual citizenship.