In Venezuela, Guaidó says Maduro's government plans on dissolving opposition-led legislature

Juan Guaidó.
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Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó announced on Twitter Sunday night that on Monday, President Nicolás Maduro's government plans on dissolving the opposition-run National Assembly.

The country has long been in turmoil, with the United States and other countries accusing Maduro of holding fraudulent elections last year and recognizing Guaidó as the rightful president. Guaidó leads the National Assembly, and says the Constituent Assembly, which is a parallel legislature run by the ruling Socialist Party, also aims to "illegally convene parliamentary elections or even begin mass persecution of legislators. If they do what they intend to do tomorrow, the result will be a phase of escalated conflict." Parliamentary elections aren't scheduled until December 2020.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.