Venezuelan opposition floods Caracas in anti-Maduro protest

[WorldNews]

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By Diego Oré and Brian Ellsworth CARACAS (Reuters) - Dressed in white and chanting "this government will fall," opposition supporters flooded Venezuela's capital on Thursday to press for a recall referendum this year against unpopular Socialist President Nicolas Maduro. With protesters in from the Amazon jungle to the western Andes, the opposition coalition was aiming for at least one million people at rallies across the capital to show anger at Maduro and Venezuela's deep economic crisis. "We are going to bring down Maduro!" said Naty Gutierrez, 53, whose 75-mile (120 km) drive from Maracay into Caracas took three times longer than usual due to soldiers' roadblocks.

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