Venezuelan students clash with police over court ruling
Source: AFP
Venezuelan students threw Molotov cocktails and stones at police Wednesday in a protest against a Supreme Court ruling curbing the opposition-held legislature's powers, authorities said.
Wearing masks in the colors of the Venezuelan flag, the demonstrators set up roadblocks in the western city of San Cristobal, the cradle of anti-government protests that shook the country in 2014.
The new protest was against a ruling by the high court Tuesday that stripped the National Assembly's power to remove justices from the bench, which voided the opposition's bid to undo what it calls unconstitutional court-packing by President Nicolas Maduro.
Governor Jose Vielma Mora said on Twitter that student protesters from Catholic University attacked police with stones and petrol bombs.
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