At least four people have been killed, including a police officer, after thousands of Venezuelans opposing President Nicolas Maduro took to the streets of Caracas following two weeks of anti-government protests across the country.Gunfire erupted in the centre of the capital when armed members of a pro-government vigilante group arrived on motorcycles and began firing at more than 100 anti-Maduro student protesters clashing with security forces, the AP news agency reported.
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Across town, Maduro told his supporters that he would not back down in the face of what he said was a conspiracy by opponents to provoke violence and destabilise his government.
"A Nazi-fascist faction has emerged that wants to take Venezuela down the path of violence," the 51-year-old former bus driver said. "What we're going to have is peace and prosperity."
Protests also took place on Wednesday in other cities, including Merida and San Cristobal, where students have clashed with police in recent days.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/02/venezuela-anti-government...
The Aljazeera report quoted above says
This is one, and only one, version of what happened. Other news reports talk about armed opposition activists as responsible for the deadly violence.
says a summary of news reportson the Venezuanalysis website, a generally pro-Chavista source. Dutch press basically says that both sides blame each other for the violence.
There is, I think, no telling who did at the moment. What is clear is that this is a very right wing opposition movement, against a government that tends to treat any opposition, right and left, as a halfway house to sedition and treason. Not much sides to be taken for anarchists, I would say..