{"id":310926,"date":"2017-06-02T09:53:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T08:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/almost-40-hurt-in-protests-across-venezuelan-capital\/"},"modified":"2017-06-02T09:53:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T08:53:45","slug":"almost-40-hurt-in-protests-across-venezuelan-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/almost-40-hurt-in-protests-across-venezuelan-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 40 Hurt in Protests Across Venezuelan Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Scores of anti-government protesters were hurt on Wednesday in Venezuela\u2019s capital after clashing with security forces who fired tear gas and water cannons at the crowds.<\/p>\n<p>Ramon Muchacho\u200f, the governor of\u00a0the Chacao area in\u00a0Caracas, said on\u00a0Twitter 39 people needed medical aid after\u00a0receiving non-life threatening injuries. One young man had to\u00a0undergo surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of\u00a0thousands of\u00a0people unhappy with\u00a0President Nicolas Maduro and his Socialist government marched to\u00a0the foreign ministry on\u00a0Wednesday as\u00a0the Organization of\u00a0American States convened in\u00a0Washington to\u00a0discuss Venezuela&#8217;s deepening crisis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Crowds in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Venezuela?src=hash\">#Venezuela<\/a> seeking refuge in a mall. The world can&#8217;t ignore this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/30may?src=hash\">#30may<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gqhCZevnvI\">pic.twitter.com\/gqhCZevnvI<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Mariana_Atencio (@marianaatencio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marianaatencio\/status\/869726071134072832\">May 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Protests broke out\u00a0in the South American country in\u00a0early April when its top court briefly took over\u00a0legislative powers from\u00a0the opposition-controlled parliament, prompting outrage. A total of\u00a069 have died in\u00a0clashes that followed, with\u00a0opposition calling for\u00a0snap elections.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/almost-40-hurt-in-protests-across-venezuelan-capital\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of anti-government protesters were hurt on Wednesday in Venezuela\u2019s capital after clashing with security forces who fired tear gas and water cannons at the crowds. Ramon Muchacho\u200f, the governor of\u00a0the Chacao area in\u00a0Caracas, said on\u00a0Twitter 39 people needed medical aid after\u00a0receiving non-life threatening injuries. One young man had to\u00a0undergo surgery. Tens of\u00a0thousands of\u00a0people unhappy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-310926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}