LatinNews Daily Report - 22 March 2013

POLITICS | Opposition student groups clash in Caracas. On 21 March Venezuelan police fired tear gas to break up clashes between pro- and anti-government student groups near the national electoral court (CNE) in central Caracas.  Several hundred students who attempted to gather at the CNE to demand “clean elections” for the presidency on 14 April got involved in violent scuffles with an estimated 150 pro-government supporters with bottles, stones and eggs hurled between the groups, according to local press estimate. The police formed a cordon between the two and fired tear gas to disperse the groups.