Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Protesters Sustain Pressure on Venezuelan Government


Anti-government activists in Venezuela blocked thoroughfares in the capital and several other cities Monday, continuing a fourth week of street demonstrations to press leftist President Nicolás Maduro for new national elections. “We reiterate again: Only through the vote will we get all Venezuelans to decide what future they want for the country,” Julio Borges, president of the opposition-led National Assembly, told demonstrators gathered at Plaza Brion de Chacaito in eastern Caracas. A toppled street light stretched across several lanes of a highway in Caracas’ Santa Fe district, with scores of demonstrators sitting or standing nearby. At other intersections, activists some dressed in the yellow, red and blue of Venezuela’s flag piled garbage to obstruct traffic. ‘This government has fallen!’ More…

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