especially on a local level, the right of a politician to sit with his constituents and hear the issues of the day. is that now under threat, paula? will that tradition continue in this country? that s the question being asked right now. so interesting that a few of the mps actually went back in the last 24 hours to those surgeries or what we would call open office hours. salma, thank you for the update, appreciate it. a close ally of embattled venezuelan strong man nicholas merdudo has been taken into custody. reporter: five citizens and a u.s. prerm nent resident who were serving house arrest in caracas in venezuela were picked up by the country s security service on saturday, just hours after alex saab, a key colombian financier who worked really