CARACAS: Venezuela's opposition-controlled but powerless National Assembly stepped up its battle with President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday by offering an amnesty to anyone from the military who joins it in disavowing the socialist leader.

The "amnesty law" would extend also to civilian government officials who collaborate "in the restitution of constitutional order," parliament said.

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