Maduro accuses opposition leader of ‘treason’

‘Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has accused an opposition leader, Julio Borges, of “treason” for taking a European tour to gather support among Western powers for the Venezuelan opposition.
Speaking before the country’s new legislative body — the Constituent Assembly — on Thursday, Maduro said Borges should be tried for “treason to the fatherland,” a crime punishable by up to 30 years in prison.
Borges heads Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly, which has been effectively nullified by the assembly at which Maduro was speaking. The opposition leader held meetings this week with the leaders of France, Spain, Germany, and Britain.
“It makes no difference to me what [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel says or the queen of England [says]; in Venezuela, we have justice. We don’t take orders from London, or Madrid, or Washington,” Maduro said in his speech.’
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