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Maduro Allies Set To Win Back Venezuela's Congress In Vote Boycotted By Opposition

The president's loyalists are poised to sweep the National Assembly elections Sunday, adding to the litany of woes facing his chief rival, Juan Guaidó.
Nicolás Maduro Guerra, son of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, walks before a session of the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly's in Caracas on Aug. 8, 2017.

A five-year campaign by President Nicolás Maduro to wipe out the last democratically elected bastion of opposition power in Venezuela is reaching its peak.

Maduro and his loyalists are poised to win back control of the National Assembly in elections Sunday, adding to the litany of woes facing his chief rival, Juan Guaidó.

U.S.-backed Guaidó and the mainstream opposition parties are boycotting the poll, calling it a "fraud" and arguing that

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