[PJ] At least 29 people have been killed in escalating violence in Venezuela with the number believed to be much higher. The Miami Herald reports, "The tally does not include half a dozen victims who remain unidentified or dozens of others shot, wounded and fighting to survive."
Death comes at night in many of Caracas’ neighborhoods, when people protest against the Nicolas Maduro regime by banging on pots and pans. Soldiers and paramilitary gunmen appear suddenly, hunting opposition activists they call "the squalid ones."
The beleaguered Maduro regime has answered the challenge posed by Juan Guaidó’s becoming interim president of Venezuela by stepping up attacks on opponents, green-lighting operations that increase the number of dead day by day, according to human rights organizations.
It appears that President Maduro is not going to go easily. And that has much of the world worried: |