Venezuela Court Coup?

That's what all the Western media, needing socialist governments (and especially those with vast oil reserves) to be deemed dictatorships, would like us to believe.

As usual, it's not that simple.

Venzuela‘s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) reported that it will begin a process of control that will define the limits of the immunity for the deputies of the nation’s National Assembly.

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With the application of this ruling, the Supreme Court may annul any action of the National Assembly that violates Article 200 of the Constitution, which indicates that the deputies of the National Parliament “shall enjoy immunity in the exercise of their functions.”

Also, the ruling in question could lead to the prosecution of deputies for “treason to the mother country” in military courts, analysts report.

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The Supreme Court argues that the actions of the deputies of the National Assembly violate the constitutional order and could create a state of commotion.

  PanAm Post

I don't doubt there are some serious social and political problems - even democratic ones - in Venezuela, but this sounds to me like a simple ruling of a nation's Supreme Court that it can step in when and if the nation's Congress or Parliament (in Venezuela's case, National Assembly) tries to enact something that the court deems unconstitutional.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

 UPDATE 4/1:

 The court, at Maduro's request, reversed its decision.