Venezuela faces a fight over control of the legislature
on Tuesday shoved his way through a wall of armed national guardsmen to regain control of the National Assembly building where he serves and to take an oath as its leader.
Those in attendance sang the national anthem — in the dark because electricity to the building had been cut. Opposition leader and reelected president of the National Assembly Juan Guaido attempts to get through a blockade to the National Assembly entrance on Jan. 5. “This is a show of what can happen when we are united,” Guaido said Tuesday at the National Assembly.and Russia and U.S. officials say is engaged in drug-trafficking, money-laundering and other crimes, has been a centerpiece of the Trump administration’s foreign policy.
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