(3 May 2017) Protesters were met with plumes of tear gas in Venezuela's capital Wednesday during ongoing protest against President Nicolas Maduro.
Earlier in the day, Maduro delivered a decree kicking off a process to rewrite the troubled nation's constitution.
Maduro began the week by signing a decree to begin the process of rewriting Venezuela's constitution, which was pushed through in 1999 by his predecessor and mentor, the late President Hugo Chavez.
Opposition leaders called the planned constitutional assembly a ploy to keep Maduro and his allies in power by putting off regional elections scheduled for this year and a presidential election that was to be held in 2018.
Opinion polls have suggested the socialists would lose both elections badly at a time of widespread anger over triple-digit inflation and shortages of food and other goods.
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