U.S. Sanctions Venezuela’s Parra Over National Assembly Rift

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. sanctioned Venezuelan lawmaker Luis Parra and officials who tried to block Juan Guaido, whom the Trump administration has recognized as the country’s rightful leader, from being re-elected president of its National Assembly.Parra, 41, was once Guaido’s ally but turned on him and sided with President Nicolas Maduro this month in a bid to take over the Assembly. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said in a web posting Monday that Pa