CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro's attempt to use Latin hit "Despacito" - which means 'slowly' - to inject some cool into his controversial new congress has backfired quickly.
Maduro's unpopular leftist government on Sunday promoted a remixed version of "Despacito" to encourage Venezuelans to vote for the Constituent Assembly, which will have powers to rewrite the national charter and supersede other institutions.
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