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| Subject: Venezuelan Protesters Clash With Police, Demand Recall Wed Jun 08, 2016 7:56 pm | |
| Police in Venezuela's capital clashed Tuesday with thousands of protesters demanding that election authorities allow to move forward a recall referendum on cutting short President Nicolas Maduro's term.
Demonstrators tried to march to the electoral board's downtown Caracas headquarters but were turned back by long lines of police in riot gear.
Tuesday's protest is at least the fourth in as many weeks. Each time, police have stopped protesters from reaching downtown.
The government began a tentative dialogue process with the opposition last month, an effort mediated by former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and the former presidents of Panama and the Dominican Republic.
On Tuesday, the Union of South American Nations, which is backing that mediation effort, said the opposition had not shown up to the most recent meeting in the Dominican Republic. They called on Maduro's critics to return to the negotiating table as soon as possible, calling it the "only way to reaffirm peace, coexistence and dialogue as a tool for mutual understanding among Venezuelans."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/06/07/world/americas/ap-lt-venezuela-protest.html?_r=0 |
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