Competing mass rallies in Venezuela

Competing mass rallies in Venezuela
Monday, February 24, 2014

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Tens of thousands of supporters and opponents of Venezuela's Government took to the streets of Caracas yesterday amid fears of more violence in the bitterly divided country.

The competing mass rallies in the capital — the second in days — follow weeks of often bloody marches that have claimed at least nine lives and injured 140 others.

Heeding the call of Opposition Leader Henrique Capriles, governor of Miranda state and former presidential candidate, anti-government protesters massed near a shopping mall in the Caracas neighbourhood of Sucre.

They were expected to demonstrate both in the capital and country-wide against armed groups accused of intimidating and even attacking demonstrators.

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