Masked protesters bloodied from rubber bullets and one person hit by armored tank as clashes rock Venezuelan capital
The first bloodshed was captured on camera at about midday, when an armoured vehicle belonging to Venezuelan security forces accelerated towards protesters scattering along a highway, bounced over the median – and then crumpled at least one person under its wheels.
Violence seemed inevitable on a day when Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó attempted to launch a military uprising and popular protests in the name of democracy and freedom, to topple the government of Nicolás Maduro.
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We are the resistance in the streets. We are dying of hunger, our family members are leaving, they are dying
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