CARACAS: Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed to have mobilized a million demonstrators Thursday in the biggest rally in decades, vowing weekly mass protests to demand a referendum on ousting him from power.

Police deployed in their hundreds to keep anti-government protesters angry at food and medicine shortages apart from Maduro's supporters, who vowed to defend his "socialist revolution."

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