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Venezuela: Opposition linked to protest killings
Coup enthusiasts behind violence, government reveals

VENEZUELA’S government has linked opposition parties to murders at this week’s regime change demonstrations — which dwindled on Thursday.

Interior and Justice Minister Nestor Reverol said the motorcycle-riding gunman who killed a 24-year-old woman on Wednesday was an active member of one of the parties organising the protests.

Ivan Pernia was captured on Wednesday night and confessed to killing Paola Ramirez in the western town of San Cristobal — as she took refuge in a square four blocks away from where a riot was taking place.

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