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Di­rec­tor of Par­lia­ment Fer­nan­do So­to Ro­jas yes­ter­day con­demned what he de­scribed as the “bar­bar­ic” kid­nap­ping of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro by the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary on Sat­ur­day.

So­to Ro­jas made the state­ment dur­ing the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of Venezuela’s Na­tion­al As­sem­bly, as he gave the open­ing speech for the in­stal­la­tion of the new con­sti­tu­tion­al leg­isla­tive pe­ri­od for 2026-2031.

Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials on Sun­day al­so ac­cused the US of ab­duct­ing Pres­i­dent Maduro. The Unit­ed States has not pub­licly re­spond­ed to the ac­cu­sa­tion.