OPPOSITION, MADURO SUPPORTERS FACE OFF IN STREET DEMONSTRATIONS
CARACAS Hundreds of progovernment demonstrators massed outside Venezuela’s congress on Thursday as lawmakers inside debated how to remove their socialist president from office.
Some opposition lawmakers said they were hit with sticks and pipes as they walked through the gauntlet of shouting redshirted government supporters on their way into the militarized National Assembly building.
The opposition-led legislature voted Tuesday to hold a “political trial” of President Nicolas Maduro, though they have no power to remove him from office.