Wednesday, April 5, 2017

In Venezuela, chaos worsens as political crisis grows


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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