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Venezuela: Maduro begins bid to rewrite constitution
President calls for end to violence as he seeks to push reforms
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro launched a sweeping constitutional reform process on Monday to end the nation’s crisis.
Mr Maduro called a national constituent assembly to rewrite the 1999 Bolivarian constitution, the first project of late socialist president Hugo Chavez.
“I call a constituent assembly that will be profoundly communal, from the working class, from the people,” he said.
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