people to go peacefully to the streets to defend our president, juan guaido. to my colleagues, i ask that you don t turn your back to the venezuelan people. don t suppress anymore. jon: steve harrigan is live in caracas with the very latest. steve? reporter: jon, we saw two competing demonstrations here in caracas, one supporting the disputed president, nicolas maduro, and the other an enormous protest demonstration supporting opposition leader juan juan guaido. hundreds of thousands of people really packing the streets not only in downtown caracas coming from four different points around the city and massing, but also in about 20 other cities across the nation. it was a real show of the people s support for guaido. twenty nations including the u.s. and canada have recognized him as interim president, and as
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extradite while cfo for by livg sanctions against iran and stealing sanctions from the companies. the united states is pushing hard against that fearing that if huawei were able to complement that, china would have a global network able to steal technology. bret: the power struggle is intensifying tonight in venezuela as demonstrators take to the streets to show support for the opposition leader. president trump offered his own support on the phone. steve harrigan is in caracas, venezuela, and has our story from the ground tonight. downtown caracas turned into a protest zone for two hours wednesday at scheduled by the opposition before another major march on saturday. it marks the first show of outrage by supporters of juan
that s more than seven percent of the country s population most head to colombia brazil ecuador you know there peru and chile ecuador tightened border controls at the weekend brazil has reinforced troops at its northern frontier on it trying to bring some stability. threat to the country even a toy as president nicolas maduro has launched a new currency to combat hyper inflation and soon expected to reach a million percent a year now a million percent five zero zero been knocked off the beleaguered bowl of our currency and they give you an idea of the daily hardship that people are facing the pile of old bowl of ours that you see here right now will buy you just one chicken like wives this is how much just a handful of tomatoes cost in downtown caracas and when it
assassination attempt. reporter: is still not clear what took place at 5:30 p.m. yesterday in downtown caracas. as their president nicholas madero was delivering a speech to the national guard on live television, suddenly they had to cut the line signal when soldiers were running scrambling really, it was every man for himself. there were two loud explosions above the podium. the madero government saying it was an assassination attempt by terrorists. they say they made six arrests and nicholas madero is blaming opposition figures in the u.s. and columbia. here is nicholas madero. today, the attempt to assassinate me. i have no doubt that everything points to the right. the venezuelan far right. an alliance with the colombians far right. reporter: on the streets of caracas where he is deeply unpopular due to a failing economy, there is some skepticism. some local firefighters