Protesters fill Venezuela's streets but Maduro remains defiant
by Mery Mogollon and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Jan 31, 2019
3 minutes
CARACAS, Venezuela - Scores of roving government loyalists on motorcycles swung by the hospital just before noon on Wednesday, a stark warning to protesters that their actions were under scrutiny.
Squads of shotgun-toting national police monitored events from beneath the trees across the street.
'We are not afraid!" chanted the demonstrators, including doctors and nurses in white smocks emerging from the grounds of Dr. Jose Manuel de los Rios Children's Hospital on the edge of this capital's frayed downtown.
Many demanded an infusion of humanitarian aid for a country where
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