Amid protests, Venezuelan president calls for new constitution

His country beset by hyper-inflation and wracked by violent protests, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called Monday for a popular assembly to rewrite the country's constitution.


"I call a constituent assembly that will be profoundly communal, from the working class, from the people," Maduro said, invoking Article 347 of the Bolivarian Constitution.

The article allows for "calling a National Constituent Assembly for the purpose of transforming the State, creating a new juridical order and drawing up a new Constitution."
 [upi.com]
1/5/17
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