Men with sticks and rocks attacked
Venezuelan opposition lawmakers who were protesting on Monday, as their
country's political crisis continued to deepen. The legislators, their faces
bloodied by the blows, were demanding the removal of Venezuela's Supreme Court
judges. The violence followed last Thursday's move by the Supreme Court to
seize power from the National Assembly, effectively dissolving the elected
legislature and the only branch of government not controlled by loyalists of
President Nicolas Maduro. That triggered an outcry in Venezuela and around the
world — and it even led one of Maduro's most prominent officials to break ranks
by calling the ruling unconstitutiona. More…
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