Unrest continued in Venezuela on Saturday when competing pro- and anti-government marches brought an estimated hundreds of thousands onto the streets.

Opposition forces blame economic problems and crime on leftist President Nicolas Maduro, while Maduro

“There’s a world campaign against Venezuela,” Maduro said during a news conference on Friday. “It’s a campaign to justify an intervention in the domestic affairs of Venezuela.”

As Jake Johnston recently commented in CEPR’s Americas Blog,