CARACAS: Venezuelan security forces have cleared barricades from the western city that launched the first in a wave of national anti-government protests, a military commander said Monday.

Vladimir Padrino, head of the armed forces’ strategic operations command, said that police and the national guard had removed the blockades in three key avenues of San Cristobal late on Sunday.

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