Junot Díaz, the Pulitzer prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, talks about the role of religion in the Dominican Republic and the political power of literature.
Two days of massive protests on the streets of Caracas against the government of President Nicolas Maduro spilled into a violent night in several parts of the city, with residents in El Valle witnessing repetitive gunfire, street barricades set aflame and more than a dozen businesses looted.