Venezuela: President Maduro and his opponents organize parallel rallies

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado led a massive demonstration in Caracas on Saturday.

Machado and her allies arrived, greeting supporters from the top of a truck at the site where thousands of demonstrators gathered, cheering her with the chant of “Freedom, freedom.”

After last Sunday’s controversial presidential elections, the government and the opposition called on Saturday for mobilizations in the Venezuelan capital,…