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Central Caracas on Sunday, March 21: Thousands demand president President Maduro step down.
Masses of protesters with white shirts, homemade gas masks and flags draped around their shoulders shut down a main road in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in a continuation of near-daily street protests.
At least 46 people have been killed in the worst turmoil faced by Maduro since he won the presidency in 2013. Venezuelans from civilians to police have been killed, sometimes during increasingly frequent spates of looting or street melees.
Many Venezuelans are furious with Maduro’s government, blaming it for soaring inflation, shortages of everything from food to medicine and a crackdown on human rights. They are demanding elections, freedom for jailed activists, foreign aid and autonomy for the opposition-led legislature.