(FILES) The Venezuelan presidential candidate for the Pencil Alliance, Antonio Ecarri, delivers a speech during a signing ceremony for the agreement to acknowledge the results of the July 28th presidential election at the CNE headquarters in Caracas on June 20, 2024. The president of Venezuela's Parliament announced on August 22, 2026, an investigation into an opposition lawmaker and removed him from a legislative post after he proposed dollarizing the economy. The legislature launched "an investigation to determine the offenses committed" by Representative Antonio Ecarri. He was also removed from his position as chair of the Venezuela-United States Parliamentary Friendship Group. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP via Getty Images)