USA revokes visas to officials

The United States began to cancel the issuance of visas to the members of the Constituent Assembly of Venezuela, elected with legislative powers on the orders of President Nicolás Maduro and unknown to the opposition and a party of the international community, announced yesterday the State Department. "The United States is revoking the visas of members of the illegitimate Constituent Assembly," Venezuelan envoy Elliot Abrams told state secretary Mike Pompeo. "The body has usurped many constitutional powers of the legitimate National Assembly and embodies the destruction of democratic institutions by Maduro," he said. Abrams declined to say how many people are affected by this measure. The Constituent Assembly, elected at the end of July 2017 at the end of a vote boycotted by the opposition, has 545 members.