Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado shout slogans during a rally to demand elections in Caracas on Thursday. | AFP-JIJI

CARACAS/MARACAY/VALENCIA, VENEZUELA, – Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets on Thursday in the first nationwide opposition protest in nearly two years, as demonstrators demanded free elections and other political changes with a notably thin presence of security forces.

The United States has been working closely with the interim government led by acting President Delcy Rodriguez since U.S. forces captured President Nicolas Maduro in January. Both U.S.…