Pro-Maduro forces attack opposition lawmakers as they attempt to enter Venezuela’s National Assembly
CARACAS, Venezuela — A tug of war over Venezuela's congress intensified Wednesday as pro-government thugs attacked lawmakers allied with opposition leader Juan Guaidó, preventing them from holding a session in the legislative palace.
President Nicolás Maduro's government has been trying to take over the legislature, one of the last democratic institutions in this increasingly authoritarian, economically moribund nation.as leader of the National Assembly, while blocking opposition deputies from entering the building. But Guaidó's majority reconvened in a newspaper office and elected him to a new one-year term as president of the assembly. Maduro's move was widely condemned internationally.
“They didn’t try to stop us. They tried to lynch us,” said another of the deputies, Carlos Berrizbeitia. Journalists trying to report on the attacks were pulled off their motorcycles by armed civilians, who stole their equipment.The National Assembly is the only government institution dominated by the opposition. It declared Guaidó president of Venezuela a year ago, after
. Guaidó has been recognized as the rightful leader of this OPEC nation by the United States and more than 50 other countries.polling agency, said it was clear the government was not going to allow the opposition lawmakers to hold sessions in the National Assembly. “What they want is for them to have a parallel operation outside the palace because that takes away their legitimacy,” he said.
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