Meeting between Venezuela government, opposition may help ease protests
Published: Monday February 24, 2014 MYT 6:31:43 AM
Updated: Monday February 24, 2014 MYT 6:31:43 AM
Meeting between Venezuela government, opposition may help ease protests
by brian ellsworth
CARACAS (Reuters) - A meeting between a top Venezuelan opposition leader and President Nicolas Maduro on Monday may help ease nearly two weeks of violent anti-government protests that have killed at least eight people.
State governor Henrique Capriles will meet Maduro at a routine gathering of governors and mayors and will likely get a chance to present the opposition's grievances.
The daily unrest has sharpened the bitter divide between critics and supporters of the ruling Socialist Party, although even Maduro's rivals appear to be growing weary of blocked streets and constant clashes between students and police.
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Residents of Caracas' poor west side have not launched many demonstrations, though government critics there have joined traditional protests of banging pots and pans at their windows during Maduro's hours-long television broadcasts.
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http://www.thestar.com.my/News/World/2014/02/24/Meeting-between-Venezuela-govt-opposition-may-help-ease-protests/