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“YOU wanted your elections. Here are your elections,” President Nicolas Maduro told opposition politicians on Wednesday, having decreed that a constituent assembly will be elected in the near future.
The president told supporters at the national electoral council that the 500-member assembly would be selected by voters in the coming weeks, and will have the power to rewrite Venezuela’s constitution.
Surrounded by top-ranking United Socialist Party (PSUV) officials, President Maduro said that the assembly was needed to instil peace against a violent opposition.
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
