Venezuela sinks deeper into messy political crisis
Venezuela sank deeper into a messy political crisis Tuesday as the opposition-controlled National Assembly suspended its session and President Nicolas Maduro's party proposed the Supreme Court take over legislative powers. Speaking before a nearly empty chamber, speaker Henry Ramos Allup declared the National Assembly lacked a quorum in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that declared the current legislature null and void because of the presence of three banned opposition lawmakers.
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