Don’t fail me now.”

Venezuelans President Nicolas Maduro says he’s open to talk with opposition on crisis Venezuela opposition asks Wall Street to cut off Maduro as protests continue The president was vague about how members of the constitutional assembly would be chosen. He labeled Maduro’s move “a scam to deceive the Venezuelan people with a mechanism that is nothing more than a coup.”

Borges encouraged Venezuelans to shut down Caracas’ streets for two hours Tuesday and to mobilize for intensified demonstrations on Wednesday. Henrique Capriles, an opposition leader and governor of Miranda state, said at a news conference Tuesday that the Maduro plan was a “constitutional fraud” and a “mechanism to do away once and for all with the National Assembly.” He called on supporters to go to the streets Wednesday to voice their opposition to the plan. – Ongoing protests –

 The new constitution-writing entity would be “a citizen’s constituent body, not from political parties — a people’s constituent body,” he said, adding the National Electoral Council would start work on the process on Tuesday. “And it has the effect of pushing out the possibility of elections this year and probably next year as well.”

Venezuela’s constitution was last rewritten in 1999, early in the 14-year presidency of the late Hugo Chavez, who launched a socialist revolution in the oil-exporting nation.
President Nicolas Maduro announces the drafting of a new constitution amid massive protests.