This is the house of retired Venezuelan army general Angel Vivas.
He's standing on the roof holding an assault rifle and shouting through a megaphone.
The Venezuelan police had arrived to arrest him on the order of President Nicolas Maduro
on charges of inciting civil disobedience.
What the general did was offer protesters advice on how to string up roadblocks using
wire.
Then a motorcyclist died after crashing through a cable strung across a road.
That led led to President Maduro calling for the general's arrest.
But the general refused to go, telling the crowds of supporters and police gathered round
that he had made the decision not to turn himself in.
And he went back into his home, undetained.
But there's more to this than just an ex-general acting like a proper boss.
When Maduro called for Vivas to be arrested, he labelled him a murder.
The demonstrators are finding it very hard to conclude anything other than the general
is already presumed guilty.
And the same charge has been leveled at the government over the arrest of opposition leader
Leopoldo Lopez.
He was arrested last week after charges of inciting violence were issued against him.
He handed himself over at a protest in Caracas after delivering a speech to his supporters.
Throughout the protests Lopez has called for calm, and demanded political change by legal,
non-violent means only.
Many have suggested that his arrest is just an attempt to shut him up and silence the
political opposition.
But if that was the aim, it doesn't seem to have worked.
Lopez managed to get a handwritten note out to the protesters from prison, via his wife,
who went onto Twitter to spread the message further.
He reassured the protesters that he was OK and asked them not to give up.
And they haven't given up - there have been thousands of people out on the streets daily
in the capital and Henrique Capriles, President Maduro's main rival in the last elections
has been out with them, repeating the calls for non-violent change.
But as is usually the case, there have been pockets of violence.
Here in the capital city's Plaza Altamira there have been regular clashes with riot
police firing tear gas at some stone-throwing opposition protesters.
In some cases though, it's got worse than just stone-throwing and tear gas.
In this video, filmed in Caracas last Wednesday, a protester is shot dead by the National Guard.
He is one of a growing number of people whose lives have been lost in recent demonstrations.
In another video, this time in Barquisimeto, students demonstrating against Maduro claim
the Venezuelan police force opened fire on them.
And on top of the police and national guard, you've got the military being used as extra
enforcers.
Now, there are a load of reasons why many Venezuelans are out on the streets protesting,
including extremely high rates of murder and violent crime, one of the highest rates of
inflation in the world, media censorship by the government, political corruption, and
shortages of basic food supplies - and there are more details about the causes in that
video over there.
But there have been two important developments since we last looked at Venezuela.
One is reports of widespread internet blackouts, which looks like a further attempt to prevent
the spread of information.
Then there's the figures from Venezuela's central bank, which has published the numbers
on it's own scarcity index.
That's reached 28 percent, the highest since scarcity began to be measured in 2005.
That means that just over one in four basic goods is out of stock at any given time.
Meanwhile, President Maduro has repeatedly accused the opposition protests of being a
front for an attempted coup.
Capriles and Lopez have consistently refuted this charge and demanded that the President
produces some evidence, which so far he hasn't.
So things are looking pretty bad right now in Venezuela, but while we all might focus
on the opposition protests, it would be wrong to assume that Maduro doesn't have any supporters.
Over the weekend there was this protest in Caracas, at which several thousand pro-government
supporters turned up.
Maduro himself was an attendee and delivered a speech in which he called for national peace
negotiations.
But the opposition blame the policies Maduro has implemented, in many cases extensions
of the programmes started by his predecessor Hugo Chavez, for causing the crisis and as
this speech at another opposition rally makes clear, Maduro is as committed a Chavista as
he ever was.
It's the hand of Commander Chavez, converted into the people, and I am going to use it
like an iron fist against fascism, against violence.
Look!
Here it is, this is the hand of a country that wants to live in peace.
And that makes me wonder, if opposition leaders are being locked up and labeled as fascists,
the protesters are as determined as ever to force change and the President equally determined
to carry on as before, what chance is there of an agreement?