Venezuela opposition on mission to oust president

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http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-opposition-mission-oust-president-150837396.html

Caracas (AFP) - Venezuela's opposition is ramping up efforts to drive President Nicolas Maduro from office this year, raising pressure on the socialist leader in a tense political crisis in the oil-rich nation.

Having rejected Maduro's bid to seize emergency powers over the crisis-hit economy, the opposition-led legislature revived calls to oust him this week.

"Someone said we should let the government finish its term so it can stew in its own juice. That would be irresponsible," the opposition speaker of congress, Henry Ramos Allup, told a gathering of foreign reporters.

Maduro's mandate runs until 2019, but the new opposition majority in the National Assembly has raised the prospect of his rivals finding constitutional or legislative means to cut his term short.

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1. Would be the best thing that could happen to Venezuela

right now. Give the new government a chance to salvage what's left of the cratering economy before it fully collapses.