Venezuela’s civil unrest enters third week

As Venezuela enters its third week of social unrest, President Nicolas Maduro continues to suppress street protests across the country, threatening to escalate a crisis that has already left 14 dead, 150 wounded and scores detained. For three weeks now, anti-government demonstrators have taken to the streets in what has become the biggest political crisis here in a decade. Protests have often been matched by competing government rallies held simultaneously but on opposite sides of the capital. More...