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Venezuela votes to create constituent assembly; Maduro claims vote win

Across the capital on Sunday, dozens of polling places were empty or had a few dozens or hundreds of people outside.

By :  sadhguru jaggi vasudev
Update: 2017-07-31 08:07 GMT
Venezuelan electoral authorities said more than 8 million people voted Sunday to create a constitutional assembly endowing President Nicolas Maduro's ruling socialist party with virtually unlimited powers.
A woman bangs a cooking pot as Venezuelan residents shout slogans during a protest against the Venezuelan government in Madrid, Spain.
Venezuelan Bolivarian Army soldiers lineup to vote for the constitutional assembly outside of a poll station in Caracas, Venezuela
President Nicolas Maduro asked for global acceptance on Sunday as he cast an unusual pre-dawn vote for an all-powerful constitutional assembly that his opponents fear he'll use to replace Venezuelan democracy with a single-party authoritarian system.
Venezuelan Bolivarian National police move away from the flames after an explosion at Altamira square during clashes against anti-government demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
Pedestrians walk past a graffiti that reads in Spanish \"Constituent Assembly Fraud,\" in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelans appear to be abstaining in massive numbers in a show of silent protest against a vote to select a constitutional assembly giving the government virtually unlimited powers.
Voters wait outside of a poll station to enter to cast their ballot during the election for a constitutional assembly in Caracas, Venezuela
Voters wait to cast their ballots next murals of Venezuelan Independence hero Ezequiel Zamora, left, and the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, at a polling station in Caracas, Venezuela.
President Nicolas lead the vote for an all-powerful constitutional assembly that his opponents fear he'll use to replace Venezuelan democracy with a single-party authoritarian system.
Across the capital on Sunday, dozens of polling places were empty or had a few dozens or hundreds of people outside.

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