Venezuela opposition launches new protests a day after three deaths

Thousands of activists take to the streets in Caracas as opposition lawmakers say security forces have used excessive force to halt the marchesVenezuela’s opposition renewed nationwide protests on Thursday to pressure the government of President Nicolás Maduro to hold elections and improve a collapsing economy, a day after three people were killed in similar demonstrations. However, crowds were smaller than the hundreds of thousands of people who flooded the streets of Caracas and p