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Venezuelans Begin New Protests, Calling for Maduro to Leave Power

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01/23/2019

01/23/2019

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Venezuelans Begin New Protests, Calling for Maduro to Leave Power

Top News: Mass protests have begun in Caracas, growing from small demonstrations on Monday. Overnight on Tuesday, over 60 neighborhoods saw protests, drawing security forces who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.

The date is symbolic: 61 years ago today, civilians and the military overthrew a military dictator, Marcos Pérez Jiménez.

President Nicolás Maduro began a six-year term earlier in January, after elections that were deemed fraudulent by most observers. A young opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, has emerged as a leading force for the opposition in the National Assembly, which called for Wednesday’s marches.

Protests today are expected to be the largest since 2017, when 125 people died.

Brexit: The British Labour Party said it would likely join an attempt to stop a no-deal Brexit in Parliament by supporting an amendment that  would give Prime Minister Theresa May a deadline to gain parliamentary approval for a deal, or face a vote to delay Brexit.

AFRICA

•  Sudan’s police have fired tear gas on hundreds of protesters in Khartoum, as demonstrations continue against President Omar al-Bashir.

•  Under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s government has pardoned over 13,000 people charged with or convicted of treason or terrorism, many of whom, critics say, were targeted for dissent.

•  Zimbabwe’s Human Rights Commission has accused security forces of “systematic torture” of protesters in demonstrations over fuel prices.

AMERICAS

•  The death toll from a gasoline pipeline blast in Mexico last Friday has climbed to 96.

•  No signs of the Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala, whose plane disappeared near the Channel Islands, have yet been found, Guernsey police said on Twitter.

•  Bolivia’s President Evo Morales marked 13 years in power this week. Morales intends to run for a fourth term in October, despite a constitutional ban and a referendum vote barring such a run.

ASIA

•  Tuesday’s talks between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not result in any resolution of a World War II-era territorial dispute.

•  Thailand’s next general election, the first since a 2014 military coup, is set for March 24.

•  Priyanka Gandhi, whose father and grandmother both served as prime ministers, has been appointed as a general secretary in the All India Congress Committee, India’s main opposition party's central decision-making assembly.

EUROPE

•  Greece’s Parliament has opened debate on ratifying an agreement to change Macedonia’s name to the Republic of North Macedonia, as tensions continue among opponents who argue the name change is detrimental to Greece’s national identity.

•  Despite the British Parliament’s rejection of the Brexit deal proposed by Theresa May, the European Parliament could begin the process of endorsing the deal next week.

•  A Belgian court dealt a defeat to Brussels taxi drivers, who sought to ban Uber’s licensed driver “UberX” service in the city.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Yemen may see an agreement on the terms of a prisoner exchange in the next 10 days.

•  Three senior EU diplomats said that Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad had revoked their visas, impeding the EU’s ability to distribute humanitarian aid to civil war victims.

•  Israel said Tuesday that its advanced missile defense system, known as Arrow-3, has been successfully tested.

- By Elizabeth Miles

(Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images)

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