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Битва за Венесуэлу, через объектив, шлем и противогаз (The Battle for Venezuela, Through a Lens, Helmet and Gas Mask)

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Antigovernment protesters celebrating in May after seizing control of the Francisco Fajardo Highway through Caracas. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
CARACAS, Venezuela — Motley throngs of masked antigovernment protesters hurl rocks, fireworks and Molotov cocktails. The police and soldiers retaliate with tear gas, water cannon blasts, rubber bullets and buckshot. An uprising is brewing in Venezuela. Nearly every day for more than three months, thousands have taken to the streets to vent fury at President Nicolás Maduro and his increasingly repressive leadership. These confrontations often turn into lopsided and sometimes lethal street brawls — more than 90 people have been killed and more than 3,000 arrested. Continue reading the main story
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A firebomb thrown by protesters exploded over security forces firing tear gas, rubber bullets and buckshot. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
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President Nicolás Maduro has vowed to confront protesters forcefully. In May, a water cannon was used. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
I have worked as a photojournalist for The New York Times in Venezuela for nine years, and for the past two have focused on the plight of Venezuelans struggling with the worst economic crisis in the country’s history. I have witnessed their growing anger as food and medicine disappear and Mr. Maduro’s authoritarianism intensifies. His government has delayed elections while jailing protesters and political opponents. Now he has called for a new constituent assembly to be elected at the end of the month, empowered to rewrite the Constitution, which many Venezuelans have called a blatant power grab and threat to their democracy. Mr. Maduro has called the protests a violent attempt to overthrow his government. Demonstrators say they are invoking their right to rebellion against tyranny, guaranteed by the Constitution he wants to revise. Continue reading the main story
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Protesters hurled stones and firebombs during a clash with security forces on the Francisco Fajardo Highway. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
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Since near-daily street protests began in April, they have captivated Venezuelans, like these office workers. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
I often start my day now hopping onto a motorcycle taxi and heading to the front lines where the tear gas is wafting and the projectiles are flying. I’ve come to know some of the regular protesters, like Tyler, 22, a former government supporter who has become adept at dodging rubber bullets and buckshot behind a homemade shield painted blue, yellow and red to match the Venezuelan flag knotted around his neck. His eyes peek from the black T-shirt wrapped around his face to hide his identity. We sat beside a burning barricade during a lull and he told me about his family. Tyler said he was fighting because of medicine shortages that killed his mother, worsened his grandmother’s high blood pressure and left his asthmatic little sister gasping. He said his family could afford only one meal a day, usually just plain white rice. "We are living with a hunger that we have never had before,” he said. "Things are already really ugly here, and we won’t take it anymore.” Continue reading the main story
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The Francisco Fajardo Highway was overrun with protesters during a demonstration in May. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
Tyler joined La Resistencia — the ragtag street protesters who clash regularly with government security forces. Members of La Resistencia say taking to the streets is the only option left. "If they don’t kill us here protesting, we will die either way — be killed for a cellphone or a pair of sneakers — or we will die of hunger, or die simply from catching any disease because there is no medicine here,” said Marco, a graduate student. I feel as if I am inside a video game when photographing the front lines — constantly skipping over obstacles and dodging projectiles whizzing from all directions. Dozens of antagonists get hit during each protest, some evacuated with broken bones and bloody wounds. Continue reading the main story
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Soldiers lining a barricade blocking antigovernment protesters. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
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Medical workers helped a woman who had seizures after being hit with tear gas during a protest in June. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
Unfortunately for the press corps, both sides have less-than-perfect aim. We are frequently pelted with rocks, paint and water cannons. I took a buckshot blast to the helmet from roughly 15 yards that gave me a concussion. Many photographers have fared worse, hospitalized with serious injuries. Security forces regularly target journalists, beating and arresting them, smashing or seizing their cameras. More than 200 "acts of aggression” against journalists have been reported since the protests began. Sometimes the protesters hijack 18-wheelers to block the main Francisco Fajardo Highway through Caracas. They have beaten captured soldiers and police officers and burned their motorcycles. They also have committed mob vigilantism. Continue reading the main story
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Members of La Resistencia see themselves as modern-day freedom fighters. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
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Vigilantism has occurred. Demonstrators set fire to Orlando Figuera, a man accused of stealing at a protest. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
When a man was accused of stealing during a protest, Resistencia members punched and stabbed him, doused him with gasoline and set him afire. The man, Orlando Figuera, died days later. When armored military vehicles aim water cannons to disperse protesters, Resistencia members sometimes fire back with giant slingshots, manned by four people each. Their artillery rounds are baby-food jars full of paint or even human excrement. "It’s nasty,” one protester said, "but everyone has it, and most important, it’s free.” The protesters also improvise to protect themselves. Some turn swim goggles and plastic soda bottles into makeshift gas masks, and create shinguards from old magazines and duct tape. Continue reading the main story
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Antigovernment protesters launched fireworks at security forces from what they call a "torta.” Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
Others have fashioned armor from carpet scraps to thwart rubber bullets and buckshot, lethal at close range. More than 30 protesters have died this way, according to a tally by local journalists. "Don’t knock it,” one protester said with a grin when asked about his carpet vest. "It has already saved me several times.” Photo
Protesters have made vests out of carpet as protection from rubber bullets and buckshot. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
Many carry homemade shields of wood and old oil drums. Some are adorned with Venezuelan flags, cartoons of Mr. Maduro burning the Constitution or phrases like "freedom, future, elections now!” and "I love you, mom.” Members of La Resistencia are generally young and say they support neither the government nor the opposition politicians. Some are middle-class university students who fight with cameras affixed to their skateboard helmets to update their Instagram pages. The peaceful demonstrators vary widely. Young, old, professionals and unemployed join sit-ins and actions to block streets. Hundreds of thousands have marched toward government offices. Almost always, security forces violently block them. Continue reading the main story
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Thousands of doctors and other health care professionals marched in May to protest medicine shortages. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
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Protesters celebrating as they burned a police motorcycle during a demonstration. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
During the March for Health, thousands of doctors, nurses and patients protested the crippled public health system. They held signs made from empty drug boxes with messages like "S.O.S.” and "without medicine, they’re also killing us.” When soldiers used tear gas on them, doctors in white lab coats locked arms — gagging with tears streaming — but refused to budge. In another march, Catholic priests, nuns and other religious protesters carried a large Virgin Mary decorated with the national flag. A nun in white carried a sign with the line from Scripture, "We must obey God rather than men.” At the March of the Empty Pots, families banged on cookware to protest food shortages and soaring prices. A recent poll found that 90 percent of Venezuelans say they cannot afford the food they need. Continue reading the main story
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Protecting themselves with shields fashioned from wood and old oil drums. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
Gustavo Misle, 80, a retired university professor, regularly attends the protests holding an old Halloween skeleton cutout repurposed with a sign, "I am hungry.” He once ran a nonprofit that fed homeless children. Now he and his wife survive on bananas. Inflation has ravaged his monthly pension, worth only a few dollars. The homemade protective gear is no guarantee of safety. Neomar Lander, 17, was wearing a carpet vest when he died on the front lines. Comrades placed candles around the bloodstained spot where he fell, keeping vigil until late into the night. Johan Caldera, a friend of Mr. Lander’s, said he was even more determined to protest. Continue reading the main story
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A giant slingshot was used to launch glass jars — some filled with paint, others with feces — at the police. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
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Priests, nuns and hundreds of other Catholics participated in a peaceful protest against government violence. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
"Now, I have no fear, because I already lost the fear I had, and the respect for the military,” he said. "The real soldiers of Venezuela wear rags on their faces,” he said. "They don’t use grenades — they use stones.” Many Resistencia members wear T-shirts resembling the uniform of Simón Bolívar, who led the rebellion for Venezuela’s independence from Spain. They sometimes plead with soldiers to join them, quoting Bolívar: "When tyranny makes law, rebellion is a right.” Wuilly Arteaga, 23, a violinist who became a symbolic figure in the protests for playing the national anthem at the front lines, cried when the police broke his violin. Videos of Mr. Arteaga in tears went viral. He was flown to the United States, where two prominent musicians, Marc Anthony and Oscarcito, gave him a new violin. Continue reading the main story
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Mr. Arteaga was injured on Saturday in violent clashes between security forces and protesters at a march on the Supreme Court in support of alternative magistrates appointed Friday by the opposition. "Neither rubber bullets nor pellets will stop our fight for Venezuela’s independence,” Mr. Arteaga posted later on Twitter. "Tomorrow I will be back in the streets.” After an earlier day of clashes, hundreds of soldiers retreated, their ammunition exhausted. Members of La Resistencia celebrated as they retook the main highway, raising their fists and singing the national anthem. "Glory to the brave people, who shook off the yoke,” they sang. "Off with the chains! Off with the chains!” the song continues. "Death to oppression!” Continue reading the main story
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A protester resting as an industrial-size truck that protesters hijacked and used as a roadblock burned. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
The government calls Resistencia members terrorists and has threatened a more muscular military response. "If Venezuela was plunged into chaos and violence and the Bolivarian Revolution destroyed, we would go to combat,” President Maduro said. At the vigil for Mr. Lander, a fellow Resistencia member squatted, his Converse high-tops touching the spot where Mr. Lander was killed, and vowed to stay in the street until the government falls. Staring into my camera, he had this message for the president: "Take a good look at my face, because I am not afraid.” Continue reading the main story
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Demonstrators at a memorial near where a protester, Neomar Lander, was killed by security forces. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
Meridith Kohut is a freelance photographer for The New York Times who has covered the turmoil in Venezuela for the last two years. Follow her on Twitter @MeridithKohut. A version of this article appears in print on July 23, 2017, on Page A15 of the New York edition with the headline: The Battle for Venezuela, Through a Lens and Gas Mask. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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