Dissenting Attorney General Tips Venezuela Political Crisis
It was a mesmerizing moment in Venezuela's fast-moving political crisis. Towards the end of a dry and detailed speech on her office's annual report, the country's bespectacled Attorney General Luisa Ortega paused, cleared her throat - and delivered a bombshell. "I consider it a historic and unavoidable duty," she began, before denouncing two Supreme Court sentences that annulled the opposition-led congress and took Venezuela deeper into authoritarian rule. Hitherto known as a stalwart ally of the ruling Socialists... Читать дальше...