FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who many nations have recognised as the country's rightful interim ruler speaks next to Venezuela's National Assembly first Vice President Juan Pablo Guanipa and second Vice President Carlos Berrizbeitia during a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero/File Photo
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan security forces let U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido enter the legislative palace on Tuesday amid a showdown for control of parliament after the ruling socialist party installed its own rival congressional chief.
Guaido, who was re-elected on Sunday to a second one-year term as head of the opposition-held congress, had pledged to preside over Tuesday's opening session after security forces blocked him from the building over the weekend to allow socialist legislators to swear in their own speaker.
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