<p>Protesters were arrested in the Bello Campo neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, as a general strike against the government’s plans to write a new constitution entered its second day on July 27.</p><p>Protests in the same area the previous day</a> saw police shoot tear gas at a crowd of protesters who threw fireworks and rocks at them.</p><p>The Venezuelan government issued a ban on protests from July 28 to August 1, and plans to elect delegates</a> to the Constituent Assembly, which would have power to rewrite the constitution and shut down the opposition-led legislature, on July 31.</p><p>The US government ordered family members of employees at its embassy in Venezuela to leave on July 27, as seven people were killed during the strike, according to Reuters</a>. Credit: Twitter/Laura Rangel via Storyful</p><br />
