US slaps new sanctions on Venezuela

The United States imposed new sanctions on crisis-hit Venezuela on Wednesday, targeting members of a controversial, all-powerful, loyalist assembly installed last week to bolster what Washington calls the "dictatorship" of President Nicolas Maduro.The measures were aimed at six members of the so-called Constituent Assembly -- among them the brother of late president Hugo Chavez -- as well as a military officer in charge of security for the body, and a board member of the national electoral autho