EU nations back Venezuela's Guaido as anti-Maduro bloc grows
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Major European nations joined the United States on Monday in recognizing opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate head of state, while a separate regional bloc meeting kept up the pressure on socialist President Nicolas Maduro.