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Venezuela Supreme Court chief rebuffs Pence’s threats of sanctions

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Venezuela Supreme Court chief rebuffs Pence's threats of sanctionsVenezuela’s Supreme Court head, Maikel Moreno, on Wednesday rebuffed the U.S. government’s threats to sanction members of his court if they did not reject President Nicolas Maduro’s government and back opposition leader Juan Guaido. The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions in 2017 on Moreno and the seven principal members of the court’s constitutional chamber for rulings that “usurped the authority” of the opposition-controlled legislature, the National Assembly, now headed by Guaido.