Pro-government Demonstrators Clash With Opposition In Caracas

CARACAS — Hundreds of pro-government demonstrators massed outside Venezuela’s congress on Thursday as lawmakers inside debated how to remove the socialist president from office amid an escalating political confrontation. Some opposition lawmakers said they were hit with sticks and pipes as they walked through the gauntlet of shouting red-shirted government supporters on their way into the heavily militarized National Assembly building. The opposition-led legislature voted Tuesday to hold a “political trial” of President Nicolas Maduro, though they have no power to remove him from office.

 

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