Shops shut after deadly looting in Venezuela crisis

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Source: Yahoo News

Caracas (AFP) - Residents barricaded their shops Friday in a Venezuelan city hit by violence after the country's food crisis erupted into deadly looting.

The unrest came days ahead of a new key stage in the opposition's bid to remove President Nicolas Maduro from office: the authentication of signatures calling for a recall referendum.

Police arrested hundreds of people in the latest unrest, which heightened hardship and political uncertainty in the impoverished oil-producing nation.

Some shop owners welded their shutters closed in the old colonial city of Cumana, where dozens of stores were looted on Tuesday.


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The "revolution" continues its inevitable downward spiral

[mr_liberal]

1. Socialism. nm

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Not socialism. Not progressive. Not "liberal". It's left-wing authoritarianism. . . nt