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Venezuelan troops take control of protest plaza

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZCHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
Published March 17, 2014 11:45pm ET
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Venezuelan troops take control of protest plaza
A anti-government demonstrator, left, argues with a pro-government supporter inside of Plaza Altamira in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 17, 2014. The cardboard sign the woman carries reads ins Spanish "GNB please help us. The students have the ideas. The thugs have the guns." The pro-government sympathizers carry brooms to clean Plaza Altamira from debris left over from previous clashes. Security forces on Monday took control of the plaza and surrounding neighborhoods that have become the center of anti-government protests that have shaken the country for a month. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) | Esteban Felix

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Security forces on Monday took control of a Caracas plaza that has been at the heart of anti-government protests that have shaken Venezuela for a month.

Clusters of National Guardsmen patrolled Plaza Altamira and the principal streets extending from it while dozens of green-vested workers swept up debris that protesters used to block streets in the middle- and upper-class neighborhoods of eastern Caracas.

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