Protesters clashed with police in this anti-government stronghold Thursday amid a storm of tear gas, rocks and buckshot as Venezuelans staged dueling marches on the anniversary of last year’s bloody protest movement. While demonstrations were mostly calm elsewhere in the country, the anti-government march turned violent in this restive city near the border with Colombia, which was an epicenter of the 2014 movement. A sea of protesters marched in San Cristobal’s streets. Some youths threw projectiles at police officers clad in riot gear, who fired tear gas canisters while onlookers ran in the opposite direction with young children in their arms. At least five people were injured in the fighting, San Cristobal Mayor Patricia Gutierrez said. In Caracas, both friends and foes of Venezuela’s socialist government braved pouring rain to stage competing marches. A small group of students in Caracas rallied against the government […]