Just Pinned to Domestic and Global News: Revved-up Venezuela opposition protests Maduro constitutional 'fraud'... By Alexandra Ulmer and Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition supporters gathered on Wednesday to march down Caracas' main thoroughfare to protest leftist President Nicolas Maduro's creation of a powerful assembly which it views as a ruse to dodge free elections so he can remain in office. Building on over a month of large and sustained protests opposition leaders have vowed more street action after Maduro's announcement on Monday that he was creating a "constituent assembly" empowered to rewrite the constitution. The government says protest-related violence and the opposition's unwillingness to hold talks with officials left Maduro with no choice but shake up Venezuela's governing apparatus. The opposition wants to bring forward the 2018 presidential vote amid a devastating economic crisis. It says Maduro's announcement is a cynical ploy to confuse citizens into thinking he has made concessions when in fact he is seeking to tweak the system to avoid elections the Socialist Party would likely lose. "This constituent assembly seeks to impose a Cuban elec
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