Protesters venezuelans go in on Wednesday out on the streets for nationwide demonstrations against president Nicolás Maduro. The opposition hope that the protests, which are expected to be the largest in more than a year, among other things, to be able to influence the military to leave the army in order to weaken the president.
Bloomberg News reports on how the streams of people in the afternoon, Swedish time, started to fill the streets of the capital, Caracas. The chosen date is symbolic and marks the anniversary of the end of the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez government, 1958.
from several surrounding countries, including the US vice-president Mike Pence, who in a video on Tuesday called on the venezuelan people to make their voices heard, and announced that it supports the protests against Maduro.
”On the american people’s behalf, we say: estamos con ustedes. We are with you. We stand with you and will stand with you until democracy is restored and you regain your innate freedom”, he wrote, among other things, on twitter.
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is planned on the invitation of the opposition, but protests are already underway in the country since Monday’s arrest of 27 soldiers. The activists, who belong to the national guard, accused of stealing weapons and kidnapped four people in what was described as an attempt to revolt.