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Nov 15, 2019, 34 tweets

#16Nov Venezuelans are expected to return to the streets, calling for freedom and the restoration of democracy. But with the brutal record of the #Maduro regime bloodshed is likely.

Tomorrow the world will be watching #Venezuela 🇻🇪

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: regime forces are raiding the office of the opposition @VoluntadPopular party ahead of tomorrow's mass protests. #16N #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: it is #16Nov, protesters are gathering across the country.

Watch the anti-#Maduro rallies live here

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: protesters flooding out of the subway, chanting as they make their way to the rally site. #16N #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: fearing a uprising the #Maduro regike has deployed police and #GNB forces all over the capital #Caracas. #16N #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: police fired tear gas at a small group of peaceful protesters in La Candelaria district in #Caracas. #16N #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: anti-#Maduro protesters gathering in #Caracas. #16N #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: a massive motorcade of #GNB forces which was heading towards a protest in #Barquisimeto (#Lara state) was greeted by cheering protesters which started chanting "Freedom!". #16N #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: anti-#Maduro protesters in Chacaito district (#Caracas). #16Nov #16N

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: anti-#Maduro protesters in #Maracay. #16N #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: mass protest against #Maduro in #Barquisimeto (#Lara). #16N #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: Venezuelans marching for freedom through the streets of the capital #Caracas. #16N #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: protesters in #Barinas marching against the #Maduro regime. #16N #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: thousands of Venezuelans singing the national anthem at a protest in #Merida. #16N #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: thousands out in #Valencia, protesting the #Maduro regime

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: the Venezuelan people out in the streets marching for freedom. #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: the streets of #Caracas today

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: anti-#Maduro protesters marching through the streets in #Anzoategui state. #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: #Apure state joining the nationwide protests today. #16N #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: protests taking place in #PuertoAyacucho, all the way in the remote #Amazonas state. #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: mass protests against the #Maduro regime in #SanCristobal (#Tachira state). #16N

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: anti-#Maduro protests in #Cumana (#Sucre state). #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: protesters calling for an end to #Maduro in #Yaracuy state. #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: massive turnout for the anti-regime march on #Margarita island (#NuevaEsparta). #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: thousands out in #Maracaibo as part of the nationwide protests for democracy and the fall of #Maduro. #16N #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: protesters marching for democracy in Carora (#Lara state). #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: protesters in Valera (#Trujillo state) managed to turn away the police and prevent any repression of the anti-#Maduro rally. #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: Venezuelans marching for democracy in Acarigua (#Portuguesa state). #16N

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: police forces in #Guarico state were forming a barrier to separate protesters from #Maduro supporters. #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: pro-democracy protests in #Maturin (#Monagas state). #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: small number of protesters also rallied in San Carlos (#Cojedo)

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: Venezuelans calling for freedom in #CiudadGuayana. #Bolivar state has been invaded by armed groups and crime organizations ever since #Maduro took power. #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: protesters in #Tucupita (#DeltaAmacuro) managed to avoid a confrontation with police. #16Nov

#Venezuela 🇻🇪: anti-#Maduro protests taking place in several towns in #Falcon state. #16Nov

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