Clashes dominate Caracas streets as anti-government protests continue in Venezuela

Record ID: 877504

  • Title: Clashes dominate Caracas streets as anti-government protests continue in Venezuela
  • Date: 31st May 2017
  • Summary: CARACAS, VENEZUELA (MAY 31, 2017) (REUTERS) GENERAL VIEW OF PROTESTERS THROWING PROJECTILE THAT EXPLODES IN THE AIR, TEAR GAS FILLING STREET NATIONAL GUARD SHOOTING TEAR GAS FROM BEHIND FENCE, RUNNING BACKWARDS PROTESTERS THROWING OBJECTS AT NATIONAL GUARD BEHIND FENCE PROTESTERS LAUNCHING FIREWORKS FROM OVERPASS GENERAL VIEW OF PROTESTERS LAUNCHING FIREWORKS FROM OVERPASS OVER ROAD OF OTHER PROTESTERS FIREWORKS EXPLODING OVER NATIONAL GUARD BEHIND FENCE NATIONAL GUARD SHOOTING TEAR GAS AND THROWING OBJECTS THROUGH FENCE AS WELL AS FIRING THEIR WEAPONS TEAR GAS CANISTER ROLLING ALONG ROAD BETWEEN PROTESTERS ON MOTORBIKES GENERAL VIEW OF PROTESTERS ON HIGHWAY, TEAR GAS PROTESTERS ON ROAD THROWING OBJECTS NATIONAL GUARD MOVING BEHIND SHIELDS PROTESTERS HIDING BEHIND BARRIERS ON SIDE OF ROAD FIREWORK BEING LAUNCHED AT NATIONAL GUARD NATIONAL GUARD LAUNCHING TEAR GAS CANISTERS FROM BEHIND FENCE TEAR GAS SMOKING BY FENCE, NATIONAL GUARD ON MOTORBIKES CLOUD OF TEAR GAS, PROTESTER RUNNING, ONE RUNNING WITH A VENEZUELAN FLAG PROTESTERS RUNNING AWAY FROM TEAR GAS NATIONAL GUARD APPROACHING ON MOTORBIKES (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PROTESTER, ZULAY FLORES, SAYING: "We want to end this 18-year-long nightmare, we want the freedom we had before, the beautiful country we were without this dictatorship, without that Colombian, and I don't say this just because he is Colombian, but that he is not Venezuelan born of our roots, out with Diosdado Cabello, out with (Vladimir) Padrino Lopez, who are massacring our youth and our people." GENERAL VIEW OF NATIONAL GUARD LAUNCHING WATER CANON ON LARGE CROWD OF PROTESTERS NATIONAL GUARD VEHICLE LAUNCHING WATER CANNON ON PROTESTERS THROWING OBJECTS AND RUNNING PROTESTERS THROWING TEAR GAS CANISTER BACK AT NATIONAL GUARD PARAMEDIC AND JOURNALIST DRIVING INJURED PROTESTER WITH BATMAN MASK OUT OF PROTEST WATER CANNON BEING LAUNCHED AT CROWD OF PROTESTERS WITH VENEZUELAN FLAGS CROWD OF PROTESTERS MOVING WITH COMMOTION, WATER CANNON BEING LAUNCHED BEHIND PROTESTER PREPARING TO LAUNCH FIREWORK AT WATER CANNON VEHICLE, PROTESTER WAVING VENEZUELAN FLAG PROTESTERS RUNNING FROM TEAR GAS PROTESTERS JUMPING OVER BARRIER ANTI-RIOT VEHICLE AND NATIONAL GUARD LAUNCHING TEAR GAS CLOSE-UP OF PROTESTER IN ANIMAL MASK CLOSE-UP OF MAN IN TEAR GAS MASK PLAYING DRUM PROTESTERS WITH GAS MASKS, HELMETS AND FACES COVERED SITTING LISTENING TO LEADER GENERAL VIEW OF CROWD OF PROTESTERS
  • Embargoed: 14th June 2017 21:19
  • Keywords: Venezuela marches protest Nicolas Maduro crisis tear gas shootings injuries
  • Location: CARACAS, VENEZUELA
  • City: CARACAS, VENEZUELA
  • Country: Venezuela
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016J66J47
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Tear gas filled the streets of the Venezuelan capital once again on Wednesday (May 31), as anti-government protests continue amid food shortages, triple-digit inflation and spiralling crime, with demonstrators demanding early elections.
    National Guard officials launched tear gas and water cannon at large crowds of protesters with gas masks and Venezuelan flags, some of which responded throwing fireworks.
    A protester joining the march towards the Supreme Court on Wednesday said she wanted to end this nightmare now and return to a state of freedom enjoyed before Hugo Chavez's socialist movement came to power.
    The violent demonstrations, which have led to the death of 60 in almost two months, come as leftist President Nicolas Maduro moves forward with plans of forming a constituent assembly that will have the power to change the constitution. But critics fear government supporters will be stacked in Maduro's favour in the assembly.
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