Opposition supporters accept aggregate beyond Venezuela to beef adjoin Nicolas Maduro's acknowledged achievement in aftermost month's presidential election.
Opposition baton MarÃa Corina Machado abutting bags of protesters in the capital, Caracas, and apprenticed them not to be afraid.
Ms. Machado, who had been in ambuscade afterwards actuality accused of insurrection, said there was annihilation aloft the articulation of the people, and that the bodies had spoken.
Police and the army were deployed in force as supporters of Mr. Maduro additionally captivated a demonstration.
"We won't leave the streets," Ms. Machado told protesters, with abounding of them bouncing copies of acclamation annal from their voting stations as affidavit of victory.
She had alleged for civic protests to accent burden on Mr. Maduro to concede.
Mr. Maduro insisted he had won a third six-year term, but the action appear tallies it said showed its candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, acceptable by an advanced margin.
Speaking from an anonymous location, Mr. Gonzalez said it was time for an "orderly transition".
The balloter commission, controlled by allies of Mr. Maduro has banned to absolution abundant results, but declared he won with 52% of the vote. Independent assemblage said it lacked transparency.
Since the election, anti-government protests accept flared up and hundreds of bodies accept been arrested by the aegis forces, which abide loyal to President Maduro.
According to the Venezuelan government, added than 2,400 bodies accept been bedfast back 29 July, the day the acknowledged acclamation aftereffect was announced.
The UN denounced the actuality that artery protests and criticism on amusing media accept been met with "fierce repression" by the state.
Similar demonstrations accept been captivated in cities about the world, from Australia to Spain and additionally in the United Kingdom, Canada, Colombia, Mexico and Argentina.
The European Union, the United States and a cardinal of Latin American nations accept banned to recognize the result.
