CARACAS (Reuters) - Police fired teargas on Thursday to control a flare-up in downtown Caracas between anti-government student protestors and supporters of the late President Hugo Chavez in an increasingly volatile atmosphere ahead of next month's election.
Several hundred students were marching to the election board's headquarters to demand a clean vote, when they were blocked by government supporters who hurled stones, bottles and eggs at them, a Reuters witness said.
Police fired three canisters of teargas towards the 150 or so government supporters and formed a cordon between the two sides.
(Reporting by Deisy Buitrago, Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Vicki Allen)
