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Venezuela security forces block new anti-Maduro protest
Source: Reuters
World | Tue Jun 7, 2016 2:41pm EDT
Venezuela security forces block new anti-Maduro protest
CARACAS | BY GIRISH GUPTA AND DANIEL KAI
Venezuelan security forces used tear gas to block hundreds of opposition protesters on Tuesday in the latest rally to demand a recall referendum to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who is championing the push for a vote, was at the front of a crowd blocked by police and National Guard troops when they tried to begin a march to the national election board.
Officers fired several rounds of tear gas and sprayed an unidentified liquid on Capriles and others. Demonstrators chanted "I am hungry" and held up photos of jailed political activists.
"We are not giving up. Our enemy is Maduro. The problem is Maduro, not the National Guard," Capriles said at the scene.
Venezuela's opposition coalition won control of the National Assembly legislature in elections last December, thanks to public ire over a punishing economic crisis, and has vowed to bring down Maduro this year.
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Venezuela security forces block new anti-Maduro protest
CARACAS | BY GIRISH GUPTA AND DANIEL KAI
Venezuelan security forces used tear gas to block hundreds of opposition protesters on Tuesday in the latest rally to demand a recall referendum to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who is championing the push for a vote, was at the front of a crowd blocked by police and National Guard troops when they tried to begin a march to the national election board.
Officers fired several rounds of tear gas and sprayed an unidentified liquid on Capriles and others. Demonstrators chanted "I am hungry" and held up photos of jailed political activists.
"We are not giving up. Our enemy is Maduro. The problem is Maduro, not the National Guard," Capriles said at the scene.
Venezuela's opposition coalition won control of the National Assembly legislature in elections last December, thanks to public ire over a punishing economic crisis, and has vowed to bring down Maduro this year.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKCN0YT26N
