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Venezuelan judges reject challenge to constituent assembly
Legal attack foiled – but opposition strike starts
VENEZUELA’S highest court rejected a challenge to the government’s bid to end the crisis on Monday as an opposition general strike began.
Opposition protesters marched to the Supreme Court building in Caracas in support of Attorney General Luisa Ortega’s challenge to the new national constituent assembly.
The assembly was convened by socialist President Nicolas Maduro to chart a way out of the political and economic crisis in Venezuela that has left more than 80 dead in two months of riots incited by the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud).
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