Venezuela unrest plays out daily in upscale area

By Frank Bajak

Published March 11, 2014 12:46pm ET

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Venezuela unrest plays out daily in upscale area — Demonstrators take cover from teargas fired by the police during clashes in an anti-government protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 10, 2014. The Venezuelan government and opposition appear to have reached a stalemate, in which street protests continue almost daily while the opposition sits out a peace process it calls farcical. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra) | Alejandro Cegarra

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A squad of motorcycle-mounted police wheels into an intersection newly seized from student protesters in a barrage of tear gas in eastern Caracas’ wealthy Chacao district, an important center of resistance to Venezuela’s socialist-led government.

From a side street, a young man in a phosphorescent green hockey mask and a white T-shirt advances, his throwing hand sheathed in a fire-retardant glove for returning tear-gas canisters.

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