Maduro’s handling of opposition street protests in recent weeks and challenged his plan to rewrite a constitution brought in by the late leader Hugo Chavez.

“Somebody is threatening my family,” she said in a radio interview. “They harass them. They follow them, patrol cars that look like SEBIN,” she said, referring to the Bolivarian Intelligence Service.

Police arrested 24 people for their involvement in the daylight attack on a busy office block on Monday, which was condemned by President Maduro as a terrorist act.

Opposition leader Henrique Capriles said it was the work of government agitators.

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Outside the Supreme Court headquarters in downtown Caracas, protesters backing Ortega were confronted earlier by government supporters.

Maduro says Venezuela is the victim of an “economic war” that hesays can only be addressed by a constituent assembly.

The elections council has set an election for the assembly for July 30. The opposition is refusing to participate in the vote, saying it is rigged in favour of the Socialist Party.

Student march

A group of Venezuelan university students is walking across the country in protest against the government.

The group, which calls itself 380 Kilometers for Venezuela, is made up of several university student groups outside Caracas, and set out to journey nearly 380km from the city of Barquisimeto – the capital of the northwestern Lara state – over the weekend.

“We are against the Constituent, against repression … We are doing this daily, walking sector by sector and we hope that people will join us; that other student movements join us