Venezuela business group decries Maduro measures as improvised and risky

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro holds a bank note from the new Venezuelan currency Bolivar Soberano (Sovereign Bolivar), as he speaks during a meeting with ministers at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela August 17, 2018. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's main business group said on Monday that socialist President Nicolas Maduro's raft of economic measures, which include a 96 percent devaluation, are not well-planned and could cause severe harm to the crisis-wrought OPEC member.

(Reporting by Corina Pons; Writing by Alexandra Ulmer, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)