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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 16 June 2017

VENEZUELA: The battle for the constitution

Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz, backed by concerted protest action on the streets organised by the political opposition, seems determined to force Venezuela’s political crisis to a denouement. In her most daring intervention yet, on 8 June, Ortega called on the country’s citizens to reject President Nicolás Maduro’s constituent assembly process and denounced “the ferocious repression” of anti-government protests. Ortega also accused the supreme court (TSJ) of “accelerating the crisis” in Venezuela. 

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