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CLEAN : Venezuela protesters set up barricades clash with police
Demonstrators clashed with security forces Thursday in Caracas as the Venezuelan opposition called for nationwide protests against President Nicolas Maduro in outright defiance of a government ban on demonstrations ahead of a...
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Clashes as opposition march to Supreme Court
Protesters rallied Saturday in the Venezuelan capital for a march toward the embattled nation's Supreme Court, chanting slogans opposing President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution.
Organisers hope the...
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CLEAN : Venezuela strike enters second day as deadly tensions flare
A general strike entered its second day in Venezuela Thursday as street protests left two more people dead in an intensifying showdown over President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the nation's constitution
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CLEAN : Venezuela re arrests top opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez
Venezuelan intelligence service arrested two prominent opposition leaders early Tuesday Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma both already under house arrest a day after a vote to choose a much condemned assembly that supersedes parliament
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CLEAN : Violence erupts in Venezuela vote (2)
Violence erupted around a controversial vote held in Venezuela on Sunday with troops firing weapons and tear gas to clear protesters in Caracas and elsewhere
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CLEAN : Voting starts in controversial Venezuela election
Polls opened in Venezuela on Sunday for the election of a new all powerful Constituent Assembly that President Nicolas Maduro promised would end his country's political and economic crisis by rewriting the constitution
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CLEAN : Violence erupts in Venezuela vote
Deadly violence erupted around a controversial vote held in Venezuela on Sunday with a candidate to the all powerful assembly being elected shot dead in his home and troops firing weapons to clear protesters in Caracas
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Tense calm in Caracas as Sunday's vote looms
Caracas awoke Friday to business as usual with burnt protest barricades a charred reminder of Thursday's clashes with members of Venezuelan National Guard as well as a harbinger of things to come.
At least six people have...
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Government supporters march in Venezuela
Government supporters and union workers gathered in Caracas ahead of the final campaign rally in support of Sunday's election for a new constitutional assembly.
They were seen carrying the flag of the communist party and...
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CLEAN : Venezuela: Public prosecutor's office under siege by military
Military troops surround Venezuela's public prosecutor's office in what chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega one of President Nicolas Maduro's most vocal critics says is a siege
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Raw: Opposition Clashes with Venezuelan Security
Venezuelan police set fire to motobikes belonging to the press, after police were targeted with an exposive device.
A group of around 50 journalists was reporting on the clashes between the national guards and...
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Press focus of tear gas in Venezuela
Venezuelan police set fire to motobikes belonging to the press, after police were targeted with an exposive device.
A group of around 50 journalists was reporting on the clashes between the national guards and...
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Venezuela opposition clashes with security forces
A group of anti-government protesters clashed on Sunday with Venezuela security forces in the capital Caracas.
The clashes erupted as opposition members gathered to protest against Sunday's vote for a constitutional...
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Voters at polls in constitutional assembly vote
People began voting in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, on Sunday in a constitutional assembly vote called by President Nicolas Maduro that has enraged his political opposition.
Sunday's election of delegates to the...
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Venezuelan judges shelter in Chilean residence
Two judges appointed by Venezuela's opposition-controlled National Assembly have taken refuge in the residence of the Chilean ambassador in Caracas.
Chilean Foreign Minister Heraldo Munoz tweeted Tuesday that Beatriz Ruiz...
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Detained Venezuela opposition leaders' homes
Two of Venezuela's leading opposition figures were taken from their homes in the middle of the night by state security agents on Tuesday, in President Nicolas Maduro's first moves against prominent enemies since a widely denounced vote...
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Maduro supporters march in support of new assembly
Thousands of government supporters walked to the Venezuelan National Assembly were newly elected lawmakers are being sworn in as part of the new Constitutional Assembly Friday.
The 545 members of the new National...
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Troops outside Venezuela chief prosecutor's office
Security forces surrounded the entrance to the office of Venezuela's chief prosecutor on Saturday ahead of a session of the newly installed constitutional assembly that is expected to debate removing the onetime loyalist-turned-arch...
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CLEAN : Foreign ministers evaluate possible measures against Venezuela
Foreign ministers and representatives from 17 countries meet in Lima on Tuesday to evaluate possible measures against Venezuela for a new type of coup after the installation of the Constituent Assembly that has aggravated the crisis in...
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Petrol bomb attack at Spanish Embassy in Caracas
Authorities in Venezuela say the Spanish Embassy in Caracas has been attacked with multiple homemade explosive devices.
Prosecutors report that two individuals on a motorcycle launched the devices described as petrol bombs...
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Troops at checkpoints across Venezuela capital
Venezuelan army checkpoints were operational throughout Caracas on Sunday, with soldiers asking for papers in various parts of the city.
National Guard trucks were seen around the military barracks of Fuerte Tioni and...
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Venezuela government supporters cheer new lawmakers
On Friday Venezuelan government supporters cheered outside of National Assembly building were new lawmakers are invested the new Constitutional Assembly.
Delegates marched to the neo-classical legislative palace accompanied...
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Peru expels Venezuela ambassador to protest assembly
Peru expelled Venezuela's ambassador on Friday as regional pressure built on President Nicolas Maduro's government for allegedly trampling his country's constitutional order.
The Venezuelan government retaliated by ordering...
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CLEAN : Pence arrives for last leg of South America tour in Panama
US Vice President Michael Pence arrived on Thursday in Panama in the last leg of his Latin American tour which has been strongly marked by the crisis in Venezuela