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Venezuela crisis deepens as opposition leaders are arrested

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Venezuelan security agents descended in the dead of night, seizing opposition leaders.

Venezuelan security agents descended in the dead of night, seizing opposition leaders from their homes. Their arrests came after Sunday's deeply divisive election to fill a new assembly tasked with rewriting the country's constitution. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports on the unrest in Venezuela and the American response.

08/01/2017

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