Water Cannons, Tear Gas Repel Venezuela Anti-Maduro Protest
- Demonstrators attempted to march across capital to Congress
- Opposition demanding elections, new Supreme Court judges
A National Guard officer uses pepper spray on demonstrators during an anti-government protest in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 4, 2017.
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Hundreds of demonstrators clashed with Venezuelan security forces Tuesday as they tried to rally behind lawmakers locked in a bitter dispute with the administration of President Nicolas Maduro and the Supreme Court.
The opposition-controlled National Assembly had called for the march ahead of a vote by lawmakers to remove members of the country’s top court, less than a week after judges attempted to seize the power of Congress. The protest was the most violent since hundreds of thousands flooded the capital last year demanding the embattled president’s ouster.