VENEZUELAN socialists marched for peace yesterday after opposition violence left three dead and late president Hugo Chavez’s childhood home torched.

Communities Minister Aristobulo Isturiz, a senior United Socialist Party (PSUV) member, called for a “great mobilisation for peace, for life” in the capital Caracas at the weekly party meeting on Monday.

On his Sundays with Maduro TV programme, President Nicolas Maduro urged Venezuelans to join “the great march for peace, the great march for love” in opposition to recent violence surrounding US-backed bids to oust the regime.