We won't be COURT: Justice goes up in flames with protesters setting fire to Venezuela's Supreme

Daily Mail ^ | June 13, 2017 | Kelly Mclaughlin

[lowbridge]

Clashes at daily protests in Venezuela calling for President Nicolas Maduro to quit have left 68 people dead since April 1, prosecutors said.

Protests continue to rock the nation after Venezuela's Supreme Court on Monday rejected the chief prosecutor's motion to stop Maduro's push to rewrite the constitution.

Opposition leaders said pro-government armed groups known as 'colectivos' clashed with protesters and journalists near the Supreme Court on Monday and witnesses' videos showed fistfights and people being shoved to the ground at the demonstration site.

National guardsmen in black helmets and bulletproof vests stretched across a street with plastic shields, blocking protesters from reaching the court.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court's president accused 'terrorists' of attacking the headquarters of the court's executive body in the outskirts of Caracas. Photos posted on the Supreme Court's Twitter account showed parts of the building on fire.

Videos shared by government officials captured a plume of dark smoke rising above the building, blaming opposition protesters.

Protesters blame Maduro for an economic crisis that has caused desperate shortages of food and medicine in the oil-rich country. Maduro says the crisis is a US-backed conspiracy.

[lowbridge]

Full title: We won't be COURT: Justice goes up in flames with protesters setting fire to Venezuela's Supreme Court as anti-government clashes rage on after two months 

[fieldmarshaldj]

Sic semper tyrannis. Time to remove Maduro forcefully.

[lowbridge]

How dare they protest against the glories of socialism.