Four Venezuela regional courts voids referendum drive: ruling party

Venezuelan ruling party officials said on Thursday that regional courts in at least four states had voided the opposition's drive to collect signatures to trigger a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro. The opposition slammed the move as an attempt to derail a vote against the unpopular Socialist president, who polls show would lose a plebiscite amid an economic crisis in the OPEC country that has food running short and inflation in triple digits. Venezuela's ruling party has said