Back to the streets - Venezuelan protests against Maduro draw new crowd

FILE PHOTO: Opposition supporters take part in a rally against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government and to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the end of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez in Caracas, Venezuela January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Photo

CARACAS (Reuters) - Andrea Pacheco, a 30-year-old social activist, did not join mass protests in 2017 aimed at ousting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Pacheco, a supporter of the ruling Chavismo movement since she was young, still had not completely lost faith.

On Wednesday, she took to the streets for the first time to march against the successor of the late Hugo Chavez. The economy's accelerating collapse, rampant corruption, and Maduro's broken promises of a recovery convinced her, she said.