CARACAS, Venezuela—The country’s invigorated opposition held its biggest rally since October, defying a crackdown by the government riven by internal divisions and international pressure. According to opposition estimates, around 100,000 protesters blocked Caracas’s main highway Thursday to demand general elections. Tens of thousands of people, led by more than a dozen opposition lawmakers, were still on the streets late in the afternoon, building barricades from stones and tree branches amid a hail of tear-gas canisters...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 06, 2017 20:08 UTC