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Venezuela opposition leaders wounded in protest march

Two Venezuelan opposition leaders were among more than a dozen people wounded by security forces dispersing protests in the capital Caracas against President Nicolas Maduro. Maduro's adversaries have for two months been blocking highways and setting up barricades in protests demanding he call early elections and address an increasingly severe economic crisis that has left millions struggling to get enough to eat. Fifty-nine people have died in the often violent […]

today30 May 2017

International News

Protesters fling faeces at soldiers in march

Venezuelan protesters have lobbed bottles and bags of faeces at soldiers who fought back with tear gas to block the latest march in more than a month of nationwide protests against President Nicolas Maduro. The march on the main highway through Caracas on Wednesday came as thousands of opposition supporters again poured onto the streets decrying Venezuela's economic crisis and demanding elections. "These kids live in a dictatorship, they have […]

today11 May 2017

International News

Venezuela’s Maduro triggers shakeup of powers

Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro announced on Monday the creation of a new popular assembly with the ability to re-write the constitution, which foes decried as a power-grab to stifle weeks of anti-government unrest. "I don't want a civil war," Maduro told a May Day rally of supporters in downtown Caracas while elsewhere across the city security forces fired tear gas at youths hurling stones and petrol bombs after opposition […]

today2 May 2017

International News

Venezuelan opposition renews protests against Maduro

Protesters in Venezuela have renewed nationwide anti-government rallies to pressure President Nicolas Maduro to step down, a day after three people were killed in similar demonstrations dubbed by the opposition as the "mother of all marches". Crowds on Thursday were smaller than the hundreds of thousands of people who flooded the streets of the capital, Caracas, on Wednesday, holding rival rallies amid increasing tensions over the oil-rich country's political crisis. […]

today21 April 2017

International News

Deadly violence at Venezuela’s ‘mother of all marches’

Two Venezuelan students have died after being shot during what the opposition dubbed the "mother of all marches" against President Nicolas Maduro. Clashes broke out on Wednesday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, where hundreds of thousands of people held rival protests amid rising tensions over the country's political crisis. Security forces fired tear gas at anti-government demonstrators accusing Maduro of eroding democracy and plunging the economy into chaos. Maduro supporters […]

today20 April 2017

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