Venezuelans take to streets for rival mass rallies

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Tens of thousands of supporters and opponents of Venezuela's government took to the streets of Caracas Saturday amid fears of more violence in the bitterly divided country. Heeding the call of opposition leader Henrique Capriles, governor of Miranda state and former presidential candidate, anti-government protesters massed near a shopping mall in the Caracas neighborhood of Sucre. "The state should stop these paramilitary groups," said the head of the main opposition coalition, Ramon Guillermo Aveledo. Leftist President Nicolas Maduro had announced that "millions of women would come out in all of the country's cities" to march "against fascism."

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