Venezuela opposition calls for nationwide strike

‘Venezuela’s opposition has called for a general nationwide strike to increase pressure on President Nicolas Maduro.
Opposition leaders on Monday revealed plans to further resist Maduro on the heels of a Sunday symbolic referendum against a plan by Maduro to rewrite the constitution.
“We call on the whole country to launch a 24-hour national strike this Thursday, a massive, non-violent protest,” Freddy Guevara, an opposition leader and the vice-president of Venezuela’s National Assembly, said.
The strike would aim “to pressure the government and to prepare for the final steps, which will be next week, to confront this fraud… and to restore constitutional order,” he said, in reference to the constitutional rewrite bid.
But it was not clear how many Venezuelans would heed the call.’
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