Venezuelan opposition supporters held a nationwide protest on Saturday in a bid to keep up the pressure on President Nicolas Maduro after Washington recognized self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido as the legitimate president and issued potentially crippling sanctions that are likely to further weaken the OPEC nation’s struggling oil industry.
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