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As Maduro tightens his grip on Venezuela, an insurgency stirs

Protests in Venezuela, like this clash with the national guard in eastern Caracas on April 26, steadily intensified ahead of the July 30 vote

BEFORE DAWN BROKE IN VENEZUELA’S colonial city of Valencia on Aug. 6, a convoy of SUVs pulled up to a nearby army base and a gaggle of men in green fatigues stormed out, clutching rifles. After a bloody exchange of gunfire, a number of men escaped with grenade launchers and 93 Kalashnikovs. While military helicopters searched in vain for the assailants, a video swept the Internet showing a former army

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