Exiled Venezuela lawmakers chosen to lead anti-Maduro fight

By CAMILLE RODRIGUEZ MONTILLA and JOSHUA GOODMAN
Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition has selected an all-female team of exiled former lawmakers to replace the beleaguered Juan Guaidó as the face of its faltering efforts to remove socialist President Nicolas Maduro. Last week politicians who were elected to the National Assembly in 2015 voted to oust Guaidó from his role as “interim president.” It was a title he claimed as head of what was widely considered the South American nation’s last democratically-elected institution. On Thursday, those same former lawmakers chose Dinorah Figuera to replace Guaidó, along with two other backbenchers in a triumvirate leadership of a legislature that operates as a symbolic shadow to Maduro’s rubber-stamping National Assembly.