LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Violinist symbolic of Venezuela protest bloodied.

A young violinist who became a symbol of anti-government protest in Venezuela has apparently been injured at a demonstration.

Images broadcast on local television show emergency response workers tending to Wuilly Arteaga as he bleeds from his nose. His shirt and baseball cap with the colors of the Venezuelan flag are also stained with blood.

Arteaga posted a brief video of himself Saturday on Twitter with a swollen lip and bandaged face, vowing to be back on the streets tomorrow.

It was not immediately clear what happened to him.

Arteaga has been a fixture at demonstrations against President Nicolas Maduro, playing the national anthem on his violin as authorities launch tear gas in his direction.

Maduro’s opposition is calling for a two-day general strike to protest his July 30 vote to “elect a new national assembly and rewrite the constitution” in order to bypass the existing, opposition-held assembly. Because socialism will work this time, if they just put the right people in charge.