Violence escalates in divided Venezuela

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By Andrew Cawthorne and Eyanir Chinea CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan security forces and demonstrators faced off in streets blocked by burning barricades in several cities on Thursday in an escalation of protests against President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government, witnesses said. The demonstrators, mainly students, blame the government for violent crime, high inflation, product shortages and alleged repression of opponents. In affluent east Caracas overnight, security forces fired teargas and bullets, chasing youths who threw Molotov cocktails and blocked streets with burning trash, witnesses said. Residents in middle-class neighborhoods banged pots and pans at windows in a traditional form of protest, and demonstrators were out again from early on Thursday.

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