Venezuela’s opposition took majority control of the National Assembly on Tuesday after years in the political wilderness, setting the stage for a potential power struggle with embattled President Nicolas Maduro. Lawmakers were sworn in during a heated parliamentary session that saw pro-government representatives walk out in protest after pushing and shoving their way onto the dais as the new leadership laid out its legislative agenda. It’s the first time in 17 years that the opposition to the socialist revolution begun by the late President Hugo Chavez have controlled the legislature, and many of its leaders seemed rapt in disbelief. But the two-thirds opposition majority won by a landslide last month, giving it unprecedented strength to challenge Maduro’s rule, was in doubt after a government-stacked Supreme Court barred four lawmakers from taking their seats at the last minute while it probes allegations of […]