Venezuela's opposition boycotted a
meeting on Monday to discuss President Nicolas Maduro's plan for a new popular
assembly, preferring to protest in the streets where they were again blocked by
security forces firing tear gas.In familiar scenes from five weeks of unrest,
youths with gas masks and makeshift shields faced off with police and National
Guard troops in Caracas, after hundreds of demonstrators were stopped from
reaching government offices. In Venezuela's second city Maracaibo, a crowd of
about 300 protesters shouting "Maduro Out!" and "No to
Dictatorship!" was dispersed with multiple volleys of tear gas. More…
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