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Venezuelan parliament votes to begin impeachment proceedings against President Nicolas Maduro
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/25/venezuelan-parliament-votes-to-begin-impeachment-proceedings-aga/
President Nicolas Maduro is facing renewed efforts to remove him from power - including an attempt to impeach him on Tuesday, which the government said was illegitimate Credit: Bloomberg
By Harriet Alexander, New York
25 October 2016 • 8:38pm
Venezuela;s opposition-led National Assembly has voted to begin impeachment proceedings against President Nicolas Maduro for violating democracy, on the eve of massive protests expected across the embattled nation.
Mr Maduro's government has dismissed the move as meaningless, and in practice the step is likely to prove purely symbolic.
But it is yet another sign of the turmoil in Venezuela - a country with the world's largest oil reserves, and yet a place where queues stretch for hours for basic foodstuffs, and animals in zoos are killed by hungry locals.
People queue outside a supermarket in Caracas Credit: AFP
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Maduro’s mob assaulting the National Assembly session.
Notwithstanding the mob assault the National Assembly decided that Maduro perpetrated a coup and voted a resolution that: Requested intervention of international organizations, and that Maduro shall be impeached for violations of the constitution.