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Showdown looms in crisis-hit Venezuela
The opposition has called fresh nationwide demonstrations in defiance of a new government ban on rallies ahead of Sunday’s controversial vote to elect a body to rewrite the constitution. Four months of protests against the unpopular leftist Maduro have already claimed 113 lives, according to prosecutors -- eight of them during a two-day general strike that ended on Thursday. Among the dead was a police ******r who was shot in the head in the **rthwestern town of Ejido, prosecutors said on Friday. Tensions went up a **tch on Thursday when Maduro issued a decree banning protests and warning that anyone who marches against his planned election of a "Constituent Assembly" risks up to 10 years in prison. The opposition coalition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable, shot back on Twitter: "The regime declared we can’t demonstrate... We will respond with the taking of Venezuela." It called mass protests for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. "The whole country must tell the world this Constituent Assembly has ** legitimacy," opposition lawmaker Freddy Guevara told a press conference. Maduro countered by urging the opposition to "abandon the road to insurrection". He urged immediate dialogue, but signaled he was **t backing down. Any talks, he said, should happen "before the election and installation of the Constituent Assembly". Fears of open civil conflict have prompted thousands of Venezuelans to join an exodus into neighbouring Colombia. International concern has mounted, with the United States, European Union, United Nations and major Latin American nations urging Maduro to halt his plan. أكثر... 
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