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Opposition groups returned to mobilize this Saturday in Caracas called by the parliamentary chief Juan Guaidó, to demand once again the exit of the power of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro.

Encouraged by the situation in Bolivia, Guaidó tries to mobilize his ranks again after months in which he has failed to organize mass protests such as those that accompanied his self-proclamation as interim president in January.

With flags of Venezuela and tricolor caps, the demonstrators concentrated on points such as Plaza Altamira, in the well-off east of the capital, to march about three kilometers to the José Martí esplanade, where Guaidó will deliver a speech.

"We are going to meet again, exercising a majority, demanding the greatest demand: Venezuela," Guaidó tweeted Saturday, who demands Maduro to cease the "usurpation" of power to call elections.

Under the slogan 'All Venezuela awakens', the opponents met in at least five other points in the city, where the subway closed two lines adducing maintenance work.

"We come with very high expectations, not simply that it is one more march in which the political leaders are mounted on a platform to say four things and everyone at home," France Presse Omar Kienzler, a law student, told the agency 19 years old, in Plaza Altamira.

"Today we expect strong, forceful statements to be given to give us a route to all of Venezuela to achieve the definitive cessation of usurpation," he added with dozens of people.

Maduro also summoned his supporters arguing that the opposition plans, together with the United States, violent actions to reissue the "coup d'etat" that, according to him, Evo Morales suffered in Bolivia.

"Mobilized and Alerts! Today the streets of Caracas are filled with the joy of our people to defend their sacred right to democracy, freedom, coexistence and happiness. Let's say to the world that Venezuela is standing and in peace, building the socialist homeland, "wrote the socialist ruler on Twitter.

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