Venezuela's Supreme Court head, Maikel Moreno, on Wednesday rebuffed the U....
Venezuela's Supreme Court President Maikel Moreno reads a statement in Caracas, Venezuela January 22, 2018. REUTERS/Marco Bello
The U.S. Treasury Department in 2017 imposed sanctions on Moreno and the seven principal members of the court’s constitutional chamber for rulings that “usurped the authority” of the opposition-controlled legislature, the National Assembly, now headed by Guaido. “Mike Pence is trying to submit Venezuela’s top legal authorities to threats that violate the principles of independence, self-determination and sovereignty,” Moreno said in comments broadcast on state television. “We cannot be blackmailed and we will never bow before a foreign government that seeks to violate the sovereignty of our country.”
Venezuela’s pro-government Constituent Assembly has stripped Guaido and eight other opposition legislators of their parliamentary immunity to prosecution following requests by the Supreme Court.
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