Venezuelans head to polls for legislative election: “It’s a civic duty”

Polls opened on Sunday morning and Venezuelans began voting for a new congress in an election the opposition is boycotting and most Western nations are calling fraudulent. Voters could be seen at polling stations throughout Caracas, in what local resident Virgilio Fonseca called “a civic duty” independent of politics.

• Venezuela’s government, opposition agree to conditions for upcoming elections