Venezuela’s leader casts unusual pre-dawn vote, decries ‘terrorism’

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and FABIOLA SANCHEZ
CARACAS, Venezuela  — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro asked for global acceptance on Sunday as he cast an unusual pre-dawn vote for an all-powerful constitutional assembly that his opponents fear he’ll use to replace his country’s democracy with a single-party authoritarian system.
Accompanied by close advisers and state media, Maduro voted at 6:05 a.m. local time, far earlier and less publicly than in previous elections. The