Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans are taking to the streets near Caracas’s largest poor neighbourhood to protest President Nicolás Maduro’s claim that he won the country’s election.
In the Petare neighbourhood of Caracas, people started walking shouting against Maduro, and some masked young people tore down campaign posters of him hung on lampposts.
“It’s going to fall. It’s going to fall. This government is going fall!” some of the protesters shouted as they walked. People on rooftops looked on, banging pots and waving Venezuelan flags as a show of support.
Four statues of Hugo Chavez have been toppled all over Venezuela; And people are riding around dragging the head off a statue similar to the scenes in Iraq of Saddam Hussein.