Opposition protests have often started peacefully but degenerated into violence when security forces block marchers and masked youths fight them with stones, Molotov cocktails and fireworks shot from pipes turned into homemade mortars.
Lilian Tintori, an opposition activist and wife of political prisoner Leopoldo López, called for a march on Saturday.
Police and soldiers prevented it from reaching the interior ministry, but no clashes or other violence took place during daytime.
The Supreme Court reversed parts of that decision amid mounting protests.
In cities around the country there are reports of political unrest by day and shootouts and looting at night.
Some sported makeshift gear to protect against tear gas and rubber bullets.
On Friday, the government confirmed the death of Hecder Lugo, 20, who was injured Thursday during an opposition protest in the town of San Diego, Carabobo, bringing the total of deaths to 37 since large-scale protests broke out in early April.
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The suspect, James Michael Bowden, 32, surrendered to authorities and is charged with three counts of Capital Murder. A Yell County, Arkansas, sheriff's deputy was shot and killed Thursday morning during a traffic stop in Dardanelle.
"May the last death be that of the dictatorship", one slogan in the Caracas rally read. In Valencia, where the man died, some areas looked like a disaster zone with bars on shop windows bent and windows broken.
The opposition is seeking to hold state gubernatorial elections delayed from 2016 and bring forward the 2018 presidential vote amid a devastating economic crisis.
Maduro has the public backing of the military high command, which analysts say is key to resisting the protests.
Beyond these few details, however, The Associated Press notes that Maduro has been vague about what he plans for his revisions, which would cut up a founding document of his predecessor and mentor Hugo Chavez's regime. The opposition and many protesters say his real aim is to dodge elections.
"We are out here pushing for justice against those who are encouraging hatred and rage", she said, warning, "they are trying to set the stage for civil war". Weeks of violent protests asking for Madu.
The opposition's decision follows a phone call on Saturday between U.S. President Donald Trump and Peru President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, in which Trump said he'd work with Peru to "improve democratic institutions and help the people of Venezuela", according to a readout of the call provided by the White House. "We are particularly concerned that the government is failing to provide basic food and medical needs to the Venezuelan people", Haley said.
President Trump's national security adviser H.R. McMaster met with the president of Venezuela's National Assembly at the White House on Saturday as the embattled South American country faces mounting social and economic turmoil.
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