Carnival holiday may take heat out of Venezuela crisis


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  • Friday, 28 Feb 2014

Firefighters combat a blaze at a clothes factory building in Caracas February 27, 2014. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelans began a week-long national holiday on Thursday as some protests still simmered, but President Nicolas Maduro's government was hoping the break would take the heat out of the nation's worst unrest in a decade.

The 51-year-old successor to Hugo Chavez brought forward by two days a long national holiday weekend for Carnival when Venezuelans traditionally abandon cities and head for Caribbean coast beaches to unwind and party.

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