A video has emerged appearing to show Venezuela’s president being chased by an angry mob.
ADVERTISEMENTA video has emerged appearing to show Venezuela’s president being chased by an angry mob.
Grainy mobile phone footage purportedly showed Nicolas Maduro being jeered and pursued by dozens of pot-banging protesters on the Island of Margarita, some 40 kilometres from the mainland.
Activists say more than 30 people were briefly detained following the incident on Friday while a local lawyer has still not been released.
The Venezuelan government has not commented on the alleged confrontation, but the country’s Information Minister Luis Marcano, accusing the opposition of manipulation, published a video on Twitter showing Maduro blowing kisses and being cheered.
Maduro had apparently been on the holiday island to inspect a state housing project.
The incident follows Thursday’s mass rallies in Caracas.
The opposition say more than a million people marched in the Venezuelan capital in an effort to pressure the country’s electoral authorities into allowing a recall referendum.