President Nicolas Maduro is pressing ahead with plans for a controversial election in Venezuela, despite claims that it is a move to institutionalise dictatorship.

Speaking on Sunday, with a week to go until the poll, he defended the vote for a congressional body which could effectively replace the opposition-led National Assembly.

"The imperial right wing believes it can give orders to Venezuela. The only ones who give orders here are the people," the leftist leader said, denouncing a threat …
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