Women banged on pans and some stripped off their white shirts Saturday as they protested Venezuela's socialist government in an event the opposition billed as a "women's march against repression." Thousands of women on Saturday took over some main streets in the wealthy eastern part of the city. Wearing the white shirts adopted as the uniform of the opponents of the country's increasingly embattled government, the women sang the national anthem and chanted, "Who are we? As they have nearly daily for five weeks, police in riot gear again took control of major roads in the capital city. On Saturday, some of the women marchers approached soldiers in riot gear to offer them daisies and invite them to join the cause.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 06, 2017 20:15 UTC