BOGOTA, Colombia—The leader of Venezuela’s opposition-controlled congress, the National Assembly, was briefly detained days after he invoked constitutional decrees in an effort to remove the Maduro regime and install himself as the new legitimate leader of the country.
Juan Guaidó, who was elected as new leader of the National Assembly earlier this month, announced to hundreds of supporters at a rally outside the United Nations’ Caracas office on Jan. 11 that he would invoke three constitutional articles “to call immediate free elections, and for the unity of the people, armed forces, and international community to end the usurpation.”
