A 20-year-old Venezuelan protester has died after being shot in the head, authorities said, taking the death toll from a month of anti-government unrest to at least 37.
Another 717 people have been injured and 152 are still in jail from the hundreds rounded up in widespread unrest across the country, according to the office’s latest tally.
There has been violence and widespread looting this week in Valencia, a once-bustling industrial hub two hours from the capital by road.
In an incident loaded with symbolism, a group of young men destroyed a statue of the late leader Hugo Chávez in oil-producing Zulia state, according to videos circulating on social media on Friday evening.
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“Students destroyed this statue of Chávez.
“Eighty percent of Venezuelans want elections as a way out of our nation’s grave economic and political crisis,” wrote Ernesto Padrino on Facebook. »