CARACAS: Venezuela's opposition mounted fresh nationwide protests Wednesday to push for a vote on driving President Nicolas Maduro from power in the crisis-stricken country.
A week after a mass demonstration in the capital, supporters of the opposition MUD coalition rallied near offices of the electoral authorities demanding a recall referendum against Maduro by the end of the year.
The leftist leader also called his own supporters to rally across the country, to show his strength in the tense stand-off with the opposition.
Venezuela's once booming economy is in meltdown and outrage is mounting over shortages of food and medicine.
"We have to do something. Voting and peaceful protest are the only weapons we have," said Rosmina Castillo, 52, demonstrating in the town of Los Teques, just southwest of the capital Caracas.
"The government holds virtually all the power and can't come up with any more ways of avoiding the recall."
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