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Venezuela: Maduro condemns US sanctions threat
President will go ahead with constituent assembly elections
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said elections for a new constituent assembly will still go ahead despite the threat of US sanctions.
In a statement on Monday, US President Donald Trump threatened “strong and swift economic actions” if Venezuela carries out a July 30 election to the National Constituent Assembly — a new body tasked with rewriting the 1999 constitution.
But Mr Maduro said Caracas’s response to Washington “will be very firm in defence of our historic anti-colonial heritage.
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