CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro was sworn in Thursday for a second term as president of the crisis-wracked Latin American country.
Maduro swore “to respect and enforce the Constitution and lead all revolutionary changes” in a ceremony at the Constituent Assembly, which he set up himself last year and stacked with his supporters.
The 55-year-old former bus driver was re-elected Sunday in a vote boycotted by the main opposition and widely condemned by the international community, including the United States, which denounced it as a “sham.”
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