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Venezuelan soccer fans have their anti-dictatorship signs removed by FAU police during international friendly against Ecuador.

FAU Stadium has a strict policy about banners being brought to a match.

Venezuelan fans cheer and hug one another as Junior Moreno (14) scores during the first half to tie the game at one last Thursday.

A group of a little more than 5,000 people came together last Thursday night at FAU Stadium to watch Venezuela and Ecuador face off in a friendly match.

As fans from the Venezuela team gathered together, they brought banners that mentioned the crisis that’s currently going on in Venezuela. Certain banners in Spanish read “Down with dictatorship” and “No more repression” with the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s face drawn on it with a red cross through his head.