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Street protests loom as shortages, inflation and oil slump hit Venezuela

January 17, 2015

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Amid sky-high inflation, an absent president, snaking queues outside supermarkets, and plummeting oil prices, Henrique Capriles said this week that the time was ripe to try to force a change.

"We are in a state of emergency," he said on Monday. "This is the time to mobilise in the streets."

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Street protests loom as shortages, inflation and oil slump hit Venezuela

theguardian.com - Even Venezuela's most conciliatory opposition leader has had enough.

Amid sky-high inflation, an absent president, snaking queues outside supermarkets, and plummeting oil prices, Henrique Capriles said this week that the time was ripe to try to force a change.