Economics
Venezuela National Guard Raids Student Protest Camps
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Venezuelan National Guard troops raided four tented protest camps in eastern Caracas this morning as the country’s economic crisis deepened and support for President Nicolas Maduro tumbled.
National Guard troops arrested 243 students who had been sleeping in the camps for the past month, Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres said on state television. The raids triggered a fresh wave of roadblocks as well as demonstrations and one police officer was killed.