Venezuela's Capriles says Maduro government will fall [View all]

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Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles says President Nicolas Maduro's government will "cave in" under the pressure of growing economic troubles, in-fighting and a belief by many Venezuelans that it stole the April election.

Capriles is still disputing the election, which he lost to Maduro by a narrower-than-expected 1.5 percentage points. But if, as expected, the fraud claims get nowhere in Venezuela's courts, Capriles says other forces may sink the successor to the late socialist leader Hugo Chavez.

"I think this government, in the current conditions of illegitimacy added to a deep economic crisis it's showing no intention of addressing, is going to cave in," Capriles, the governor of Miranda state, told Reuters.

"What does that mean? Well, all the mechanisms are in the constitution: referendum, new election, resignation. But ... don't ask me for ways out that are not in the constitution. Our fight is a peaceful one," he added in an interview in a rural zone of the state on Friday.

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