Venezuelan Opposition leader arrested after anti-government protest
The Hindu
Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado arrested after protests against Maduro's disputed election win.
Venezuela Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was arrested Thursday when her motorcycle convoy was fired upon by security forces as it departed an anti-government protest in Caracas, according to aides.
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Ms. Machado emerged from months of hiding earlier Thursday to reappear in public as part of a last-ditch attempt to block President Nicolás Maduro from clinging to power.
Ms. Machado’s press team said in a social media post that security forces “violently intercepted” the convoy as it was leaving eastern Caracas.
“They wanted us to fight each other, but Venezuela is united, we are not afraid,” Ms. Machado shouted to a few hundred protesters from atop a truck in the capital moments before her arrest.
There were no immediate details on her whereabouts and Maduro’s government has yet to comment. But the shock arrest spurred calls for her immediate release from governments and leaders across Latin America and beyond.
Machado, 57, is a hardliner former lawmaker who stayed and fought against Maduro even after many of her allies in the opposition leadership fled, joining an exodus of some 7 million Venezuelans who’ve abandoned their homeland in recent years.
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