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University students protest in west Caracas

Early on Friday university students at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, southwest Caracas, are staging a demonstration rejecting the violent event Thursday near the headquarters of the National Electoral Council (CNE) following a march to rebut the proposed changes to the Venezuelan Constitution.

The protest began in the university campus and then students decided to block the Francisco Fajardo highway.

After noon, National Guard troops appeared in the place.

The demonstration is preventing free transit in the Francisco Fajardo highway.

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