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State workers in Venezuela are receiving frequent phone calls, pressure from bosses and threats of dismissal. All this to ensure they vote in favor of President Nicolas Maduro's controversial new congress on Sunday.Despite four months of deadly anti-government protests in the oil-rich South American nation, the unpopular leftist Maduro is pushing ahead with the election to create a powerful new legislature. The country is reeling from food shortages, runaway inflation and violent crime.Maduro says the 545-seat Constituent Assembly, which will have the power to dissolve all other state institutions, will overcome the "armed insurrection" to bring peace to Venezuela. His opponents say it is a puppet institution designed to cement a dictatorship. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/t... http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com