Venezuela top court accuses more lawmakers of treason as congress building blocked

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Venezuela's top court accused four opposition lawmakers of treason on Tuesd...

Opposition leaders in recent weeks have called such charges an effort by the ruling Socialist Party to shutter the legislature. The Trump administration strongly condemned this month’s detention of Edgar Zambrano, the vice president of the legislature.

“This is a dictatorship that goes after dissidents, and we are fighting for a political change,” lawmaker Juan Pablo Guanipa told Reuters, referring to the blocking of congress. Venezuela’s information ministry, which handles media inquiries on behalf of the government, did not respond to a request for comment on why security forces blocked the entrance to parliament. Maduro, a socialist, calls Guaido a puppet of the United States seeking to oust him in a coup.

Pro government supporters shout slogans near the National Assembly building in Caracas, Venezuela, May 14, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

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