Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans
lined up across the country and in expatriate communities around the world
Sunday to vote in a symbolic rejection of President Nicolas Maduro's plan to
rewrite the constitution, a proposal that's raising tensions in a nation
battered by shortages and anti-government protests.A 61-year-old woman was
killed and four people wounded in shooting that erupted after government
supporters on motorcycles swarmed an opposition polling site in a church in the
traditionally pro-government Catia neighborhood of western Caracas. The
opposition mayor of the Caracas borough of Sucre, Carlos Ocariz, said
pro-government paramilitary groups attacked voters outside the Our Lady of
Carmen Church around 3 p.m. The chief prosecutor's office said Xiomara Soledad
Scott, a nurse, had been killed and three wounded in the incident. More…
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