- Title: Tear gas, rocks fly near Venezuelan border with Colombia
- Date: 23rd February 2019
- Summary: URENA, TACHIRA, VENEZUELA (FEBRUARY 23, 2019) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS PROFANITY*** TEAR GAS GOING OFF, PROTESTER PICKING UP AND THROWING AWAY TEAR GAS CANISTER PROTESTERS AMONGST TEAR GAS AND THROWING OBJECTS RIOT POLICE ON DUTY, OFFICER LAUNCHING TEAR GAS CANISTER PROTESTERS THROWING OBJECTS, RUNNING OFFICER THROWING TEAR GAS CANISTER PROTESTER KICKING AWAY TEAR GAS CANISTER RIOT POLICE WALKING TOGETHER PROTESTERS THROWING ROCKS (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ANONYMOUS PROTESTER, SAYING: "The only thing we want is for this crap to end. Our families can't take it anymore, there's no food because of him (President Nicolas Maduro)." TEAR GAS GOING OFF NEAR PROTESTERS WOMAN SHELTERING MOUTH AND NOSE FROM TEAR GAS OFFICERS ON DUTY OFFICERS ON BACK OF MOTORBIKES PROTESTER KICKING AWAY TEAR GAS CANISTER
- Embargoed: 9th March 2019 13:21
- Keywords: Urena tear gas aid Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido President Nicolas Maduro Tachira border clashes
- Location: URENA, TACHIRA, VENEZUELA
- City: URENA, TACHIRA, VENEZUELA
- Country: Venezuela
- Topics: Government/Politics,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001A2SXMIV
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: PROFANITY IN SOUNDBITE, SHOT #9 AND SHOT #14
Tear gas and rocks were flying at Venezuela's border state of Tachira on Saturday (February 23), as protesters faced off with riot police over shortages in the OPEC nation.
These clashes took place in the city of Urena close to the international border with Colombia. On the Colombian side, opposition leader Juan Guaido is seeking to break an aid impasse.
Venezuela's embattled President Nicolas Maduro, denies any crisis in his country and has refused to allow international aid into Venezuela despite often-empty supermarket shelves, long lines for government-subsidised food and hospitals lacking in basic supplies and medicines.
Political turmoil and economic collapse including hyperinflation have set Venezuela on a downward spiral.
Opposition leader Juan Guaido, recognised as Venezuela's legitimate leader by dozens of countries, has headed to the border region with a caravan of supporters, vowing to ensure personally the aid enters Venezuela.
Guaido, who invoked the constitution to assume an interim presidency last month and who denounces Maduro as an usurper, has not provided details on his plans. Some political analysts speculated Venezuelan soldiers may bar the way.
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