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In Venezuela, impeachment move prompts protest at National Assembly

In a special session on Sunday, the Venezuelan National Assembly, which is made up mostly of opposition parliamentarians, approved a measure that declared "there has been a breakdown of constitutional order and a continued state of coup led from the highest level of government by President Nicolas Maduro."

Tensions between the government and the opposition are sky high after a drive to hold a recall referendum on Maduro has been halted.