Venezuela’s mass street protest calls for general strike

Venezuela's opposition stepped up its dispute with the socialist government on Wednesday with mass street protests, calls for a general strike on Friday and a fresh march on the presidential palace next week if the administration does not allow a constitutionally-allowed referendum against President Nicolás Maduro to proceed. "Either the government restores the constitution, or all Venezuelans will go to the palace," opposition leader Henrique Caprilles told hundreds of thousands of supporters at a rally in central Caracas. More…