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

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.

The head of the Constituent Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, tweeted that the session will take place tomorrow, and if Guaidó is "scared" he should "buy a dog," Reuters reports. Cabello also said there is a "crisis of justice," and "these traitorous worms are leaving in a stampede."

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