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Security forces fired tear gas at youths
throwing stones and petrol bombs on Monday as Venezuela's opposition began a
second month of protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro. With
hundreds of thousands on the streets of Caracas for rival May Day marches,
red-shirted supporters of Maduro also gathered downtown vowing to defend the
socialists' 18-year rule of the South American oil producer. Twenty nine people
have been killed and hundreds injured in unrest that began in early April
against Maduro, the unpopular 54-year-old successor to Hugo Chavez. "For
no reason, they are starting to repress us," lawmaker Jose Olivares said,
as National Guard troops shot teargas in one district of west Caracas in the
morning towards hundreds of people standing around waiting to march. More…
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