For the first time, protesters were able to cross on Saturday from the east to the western side of Caracas without being confronted by state security, an act that Guevara compared in a tweet to "crossing the Berlin wall" that divides one half from the other. It will be a far cry from the weekend when demonstrators - who have called for elections and measures to halt the economic freefall which has engulfed the South American nation - dressed in white in honour of the 20 protesters who have died in clashes with police in the past month. Those killed include protesters and bystanders struck by gunfire and a dozen dead in overnight clashes and looting that destroyed more than two dozen businesses in a working-class neighborhood.
Dressed in white, the Venezuela opposition march, in silence, to the headquarters of the country's Catholic archdiocese to honor the more than a dozen people killed in three weeks of protests. For the first time, protesters were able to cross from the east to the western side of Caracas without being confronted by state security.