“Same time, same place. If we were millions today, tomorrow we’ll be more,” Venezuela’s opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski declared after hundreds of thousands of people poured onto streets all over the country on 19 April, the anniversary of the launch of Venezuela’s campaign for independence from Spain in 1810.

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