Demonstrators against Venezuela’s economic crisis — facing sky-high inflation and shortages of food and consumer goods — took to the streets in their thousands Saturday, banging pots and demanding an end to President Nicolas Maduro’s term. Opposition leaders, fed up with shortages of milk, coffee, sugar, meat, toilet paper, diapers, deodorant and corn meal, and with Maduro’s refusal to overhaul the increasingly state-managed economy, say the elected socialist should go. Ex-lawmaker Maria Corina Machado — who was jailed after deadly riots last year for inciting violence — said Maduro “must step aside now, so the Venezuelan people can stand united again. ” “The government needs to be changed urgently,” Machado argued, at what opposition activists called the “March of Empty Pots. ” She insisted that constitutional order — waiting for Maduro to be voted out — “cannot wait,” even as some marchers chanted, […]