Headline Roundup • August 1st, 2017
Clashes Continue in Venezuela
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On Monday Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and White House National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster announced new sanctions for Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro after the dictator moved to illegally rewrite the country's constitution.
Masked security forces staged raids in the middle of the night Tuesday to haul away two leading Venezuelan opposition leaders, suggesting an expanded crackdown on dissent after widely denounced elections aimed at boosting the authoritarian government.
Two of Venezuela's leading opposition figures were taken from their homes in the middle of the night by state security agents on Tuesday in President Nicolas Maduro's government's first moves against prominent enemies since a widely denounced vote granting the ruling party nearly unlimited powers.
