Venezuela's opposition called a 24-hour nationwide strike for Thursday to press President Nicolas Maduro to drop a plan for a rewriting of the constitution.

The plans for a stoppage and a "massive protest" was announced on Monday by one of the opposition's leaders, Freddy Guevara. 

It sought to capitalize on a vote held by the opposition Sunday that rejected Maduro's goal of having a citizens' body elected to revamp the constitution.