As the agency notes, before this, unknown persons in carnival masks threw several drafts of tear gas into the crowd on Los Proceres Street, after which they mixed with the crowd.

Earlier, the head of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, called on his supporters to support him at mass rallies on March 9.

Vladimir Travkin, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Latin America" ​​expressed the opinion that in a Latin American country much depends on how the military behave.