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NAT037 - (Venezuela-Political-Crisis) (NOT FOR ONLINE USE) CARACAS, Venezuela. x-11s. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has declared victory in a vote marked by protests violence around the country. Police clashed with opposition members as voters went to the polls to elect an assembly to rewrite Venezuela's 1999 constitution. Opponents say the vote is a bid to install a one party dictatorship. Katy Watson with the B-B-C has more from Venezuela's capital of Caracas. ("..authoritarianism in Venezuela.") (SOURCE: ABC)

TAG: Venezuelan electoral authorities say more than eight-million people voted in favour of the creation of a constitutional assembly. But members of the opposition say they believe the number is actually between two- and three-million. …