- Title: Clashes break out in Caracas as strike intensifies
- Date: 26th July 2017
- Summary: CARACAS, VENEZUELA (JULY 26, 2017) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS IN MIDDLE OF ROAD WITH NATIONAL GUARD OFFICERS ADVANCING IN FILE TEAR GAS CANISTER BEING FIRED TOWARDS PROTESTERS FROM BEHIND LINE OF NATIONAL GUARDS WITH PROTESTERS STANDING IN FRONT OF OFFICERS ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTERS SHIELDING THEMSELVES BEHIND HOME-MADE SHIELDS WITH NATIONAL GUARD IN FORMATION IN BACKGROUND NATIONAL GUARD RUNNING TOWARD PROTESTERS WHO RUN IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION NATIONAL GUARD WALKING TOWARDS PROTESTERS PLASTIC CONTAINERS ON GROUND NATIONAL GUARD IN FORMATION WITH SHIELDS WALKING BACKWARDS NATIONAL GUARD WALKING BACKWARD, SOME HOLDING SHIELDS MADE BY PROTESTERS ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTERS HUDDLED BEHIND SHIELDS ON GROUND PROTESTER IN GAS MASK THROWING MOLOTOV COCKTAIL PROTESTERS GATHERED IN STREET TEAR GAS GOING OFF PROTESTERS HELPING INJURED MAN MEDIC AND PROTESTER HELPING INJURED MAN WALK FROM PROTEST SITE MAN PULLING DOWN TROUSERS FOR MEDICS TO TREAT HIS WOUND PROTESTER THROWING TEAR GAS CANISTER PROTESTERS STANDING BEHIND MAKESHIFT SHIELD AND TREES PROTESTER THROWING LIT MOLOTOV COCKTAIL AT VENEZUELAN NATIONAL GUARD WHICH STARTS FIRE CLOSE TO LINE OF OFFICERS STANDING WITH THEIR SHIELDS NATIONAL GUARD IN FORMATION WALKING BACKWARD MOTORCYCLE CARRYING INJURED MAN WITH MEDIC AWAY FROM SCENE
- Embargoed: 9th August 2017 21:19
- Keywords: Clashes Caracas Venezuela strike Constituent government constituency violence turmoil
- Location: CARACAS, VENEZUELA
- City: CARACAS, VENEZUELA
- Country: Venezuela
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
- Reuters ID: LVA0016RCUHJB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:**EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT**
An anti-government strike ahead of this weekend's planned constituency vote descended into violent clashes in Caracas on Wednesday (July 26). The two-day national strike marks a final push to pressure socialist President Nicolas Maduro into abandoning Sunday's (July 30) election for a constituent super-congress they say will institutionalise autocracy in Venezuela.
Several protesters were witnessed being taken away by paramedics from the scene as protesters hurled molotov cocktails at the Venezuelan National Guard, who responded with tear gas.
The opposition, which opinion polls suggest has majority support after years in the shadow of Maduro's popular predecessor Hugo Chavez, says this weekend's election is a farce designed purely to keep the Socialist Party in power. Its No. 1 demand is conventional elections, including for the presidency, to remove Maduro.
Over 100 have been killed since protests against Maduro began in early April. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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