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WORLD NEWS Monday 8 May 2017

Protesters march in Venezuela, destroy Chavez statue

American country. Wear- life here.
ing the white shirts of the Several young men could
opponents of country’s in- be seen bashing the statue
creasingly embattled gov- that depicted the socialist
ernment, the women sang hero standing in a saluting
the national anthem and pose, as onlookers hurled
chanted, “Who are we? insults as the late president.
Venezuela! What do we Defense Minister Vladimir
want? Freedom!” Padrino Lopez on Friday
Some sported makeshift denounced the protest
gear to protect against movement, and said op-
tear gas and rubber bul- position “terrorists” were at-
lets. Others marched top- tempting a kind of noncon-
less. One woman came in ventional warfare.
her wedding dress. The protest movement has
As they have near-daily drawn masses of people
for five weeks, police in riot into the street nearly ev-
gear again took control of ery day since March, and
major roads in the capital shows no sign of slowing.
city. Clashes between po- On Saturday, some of the
lice and protesters have left women marchers ap-
some three dozen dead in proached soldiers in riot
the past month. gear to offer them white
Lilian Tintori, wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, left, and opposition leader Henrique
Capriles, talk during a women’s march against repression in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, May Local news media carried roses and invite them to
6, 2017. Thousands of women wearing white and carrying flowers marched to ask for a stop of a video circulating on Twit- join the cause.
repression and to pay tribute to those who were killed in weeks of violent demonstrations calling ter of the Chavez statue “What will you tell your kids
on President Nicolas Maduro to step down. being pulled down. The later on?” one woman
(AP Photo/Fernando Llano) media reported that stu- asked.
dents destroyed the statue In a call with the president
By HANNAH DREIER ela’s socialist government statue of the late President as they vented their anger of Peru, U.S. President Don-
Associated Press in an event the opposi- Hugo Chavez the day be- with the food shortages, in- ald Trump addressed the
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) tion billed as a “women’s fore in the western state of flation and spiraling crime deteriorating situation in
— Women banged on march against repression.” Zulia. that have come to define Venezuela.q
pans and some stripped off As they marched, local Thousands of women took
their white shirts Saturday media carried a video over streets in major cit-
as they protested Venezu- showing people toppling a ies all around the South

Philippines says bomb blast sparked by feud

By JIM GOMEZ a Shiite center. feud, adding the pack-
Associated Press Police said four others were age that contained the
MANILA, Philippines (AP) wounded. explosive was intended for
— A bomb explosion that Another explosive, either a a specific person who may
killed two people in a Mus- homemade bomb or a gre- have been the target of
lim community in Manila nade, went off more than the attack.
was sparked by a personal two hours later near the Albayalde called for pub-
feud, Philippine police offi- scene of the first blast and lic vigilance following the
cials said Sunday, but the Is- wounded two policemen bombing, the second in
lamic State group claimed deployed to help secure more than a week in Quia-
its fighters were responsible. the area and investigate po, a popular transporta-
Police said a package be- the bombing, according to tion, shopping and religious
ing delivered by a man authorities. hub mostly for the working
exploded late Saturday in Metropolitan Manila police class in the capital.
downtown Manila’s Quia- chief Oscar Albayalde said The Manila police went on
po district, killing him and the bombing apparently alert following the explo-
another man receiving it at was set off by a personal sions. q