Guillermo Zubillaga, the head of AS/COA's Venezuela Working Group, spoke to Business Insider Today about the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.

"The economic situation has gotten worse—the repression, extrajudicial killings, use of torture, the censoring of the press—all those things have gotten worse," he said. "The other thing of course is the deterioration of public services like electricity or water."

Due to Venezuelans moving away in large numbers, the fiscal standings of neighboring countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru have been compromised because they cannot sustain the size or rapid increase of the migration flow.

"The Venezuelan exodus is only second largest to Syria and it's projected to be even bigger," he said.

Zubillaga also stated that Venezuelans do not have access to cash and experience difficulty when procuring necessities.

"The average Venezuelan goes to a market, goes to a store and they see prices that they cannot afford," he said. "They see prices of a deodorant that is equivalent to their monthly minimum wage."

When asked why Juan Guaidó's opposition movement, which earlier this year inspired protests and calls to oust President Nicolás Maduro, lost momentum, Zubillaga explained that it is difficult for people to simultaneously protest and provide for themselves.

"It's really hard for a big portion of the population to maintain themselves in the streets, to stay in the streets, actively engaged in trying to find a political solution to a brutal dictatorship that has lately increased, and strategically, the numbers of extrajudicial killings."

Watch the full interview.

En una entrevista con CNN en Español, Guillermo Zubillaga, jefe del grupo de trabajo para Venezuela de AS/COA, habló sobre la activación del Tratado Interamericano de Asistencia Recíproca (TIAR) en Venezuela. TIAR fue aprobado en la OEA con 12 votos a favor, cinco abstenciones, y un país ausente. Hablando con Rey Rodriguez en CNN Dinero, Zubillaga dijo que la solución "tiene bastante importancia".

"Sin embargo, no creo que signifique que el día de mañana o después que haya la reunión de los cancilleres vaya a haber una intervención militar,” dijo Zubillaga. “Sí creo que es un mensaje contundente que manda la región, no solamente los países vecinos como Colombia, sino el resto de la región que han entendido que el régimen de Maduro ha abandonado la mesa de negociación".