Protesters
flooded streets across Venezuela on Saturday to demand early elections as a
reinvigorated opposition responded to the government’s ban on one of their
leading figures and presidential hopeful, in the first continuous show of
force since mass protests rocked the country in 2014 and killed dozens in
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Two-time presidential candidate and
opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who spearheaded the rally alongside
other government critics, said on Friday that he was banned from holding
public office for 15 years, in the latest escalation of the crackdown on
dissent by President Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government. More...
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