Venezuela crisis enters pivotal week, Maduro foes protest

Record ID: 903864

  • Title: Venezuela crisis enters pivotal week, Maduro foes protest
  • Date: 24th July 2017
  • Summary: ***WARNING CONTAINS PROFANITY*** SIGN READING: "CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY" AND SHOWING THE FINGER PROTESTERS SINGING NATIONAL ANTHEM
  • Embargoed: 7th August 2017 19:00
  • Keywords: Nicolas Maduro constituent assembly opposition
  • Location: CARACAS, VENEZUELA
  • City: CARACAS, VENEZUELA
  • Country: Venezuela
  • Topics: Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA0026R2VKNB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT INCLUDES IMAGE OF PROFANITY
    Venezuela's opposition on Monday (July 24) plastered election centers with slogans and planned to rally in honor of dead protesters on Monday in a final week-long push to force President Nicolas Maduro into aborting a controversial congress.
    Knots of opposition supporters gathered at various centers where Venezuelans will vote on the assembly to leave messages, chant slogans and wave banners.
    The Democratic Unity coalition has raised the stakes by calling a two-day national strike for Wednesday and Thursday, after millions participated in a 24-hour shutdown last week.
    The opposition, which has now won majority backing after years in the doldrums during the rule of Maduro's predecessor Hugo Chavez, also planned nationwide rallies in the afternoon in honor of protesters slain during the crisis.
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