*Another report of protests from Venezuela's barrios* ... Maduro has called on Venezuelans to denounce election doubters via a government-run app originally created to report power outages and complaints about state-provided services. ... While demonstrations have been far smaller and tamer than during past bouts of unrest, they’re now more spontaneous, often leaderless and made up of youth — some barely teenagers — from Caracas’ hillside slums who have traditionally been a rock solid base of support for the government. ... In the low-income Caracas neighborhood of Catia, once a ruling party stronghold, no one talks politics these days. One woman closed her business when protests began nearby and ran home. Videos of the demonstration flooded her phone over the next several hours, but she deleted them for fear the government was tracking social media posts to identify critics. “I could get arrested just for having them,” she said. ... Associated Press, Aug. 8, 2024 https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-crackdown-maduro-opposition-disputed-election-f59c93361b9b17e83c3af97ce0c7f275
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