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Venezuelan security agents arrested two key opposition leaders in a midnight raid on their homes, making good on President Nicolas Maduro’s promise to crack down on dissent following a vote that gave him broad authoritarian powers.
In the middle of the night, armed men took Leopoldo Lopez and Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma from their respective homes in the capital. The leaders had been highly critical of Maduro and had only recently been released from jail on politically motivated charges. The two, however, remained under house arrest.
The wife of Leopoldo posted a video on Twitter showing flak-jacketed agents bundling her husband into a vehicle marked “Sebin” — the name of Venezuela’s intelligence agency — and then speeding off.
“They’ve just taken Leopoldo from the house,” Lilian Tintori wrote in one tweet. “We don’t know where he is or where they’re taking him.”
Ledezma’s daughter, Vanessa Ledezma, also tweeted video that apparently shows the arrest of her father, taken from his home in pajamas. A woman in the video can be heard screaming, “They’re taking Ledezma, they’re taking Ledezma, dictatorship!”
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SOURCE: NPR, Scott Neuman
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