Venezuelans bang pots, pans to protest president

CARACAS: Armed with cooking pots in a potent symbol of Venezuela’s chronic food shortages, several thousand people took to the streets of Caracas on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) in the latest rally against President Nicolas Maduro.

The protests, which fell on International Women’s Day, consisted mostly of women who noisily clanged their cookware to show discontent at scarce basic goods and a violent crime crisis they say has embittered daily life.