CARACAS - Venezuela's opposition-majority legislature declared Sunday that President Nicolas Maduro's "regime" committed a coup d'etat when authorities blocked a referendum on removing the unpopular leftist leader from power.
The president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Henry Ramos Allup, leads an extraoridinary session of the National Assembly, in Caracas on October 23, 2016
In an emergency session, lawmakers passed a resolution declaring a "break of constitutional order and the existence of a coup d'etat committed by the Nicolas Maduro regime," vowing to respond with international pressure and mass protests.