After four months of violent protests resulting in the deaths of more than 120 people, and hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators taking their anger at President Nicholas Maduro onto the streets, the country is nearing a showdown. <br /><br />“If Venezuela’s freedom is worth death, we are willing to give our lives for our country,” says one opposition supporter. “If they want war, That’s what they’ll have.”<br /><br />A growing list of foreign nations has refused to recognize the new constituent assembly.<br /><br />María Corina Machado is the ‘’Vente’’ Party Leader. “Here are people standing for civic rebelion, and today we finally have the whole world saying that there’s a dictatorship in Venezuela that has to go, we have achieved what we have been fighting for, for years: division within the Chavez supporters,” she says.<br /><br />Venezuelan prosecutors have asked a court to suspend Friday’s inauguration of the new constituent assembly over claims of electoral fraud.<br /><br />Gabriela del Mar Ramírez, is a Public Defender. “If the opposition and the CNE have a meeting and they settle all the steps that were missed in the assembly’s fraudulent election, then the governors the people chose will win,” she says.<br /><br />Our correspondent Eduardo Salazar Uribe is in Caracas. <br /><br />He says the first meeting of the 545 delegates is expected to convene Friday at the legislative palace in Caracas just metres from where the opposition-controlled National Assembly sits. Anti-government leaders are calling on Venezuelans to protest Friday as the new constituent assembly members take office.<br />
