The crackdown by Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro – now officially branded a dictator by the U. S. – on political opposition intensified Tuesday when intelligence agents detained opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma at gunpoint in their homes and took them into custody.
The two politicians have been under house arrest for their involvement in anti-government protests and organizing, according to the BBC. Videos published online by family members of both men show them being led away in the middle of the night by agents from Sebin, the Venezuelan intelligence agency. Lopez’s wife Lilian Tintori said in a tweet: ‘They’ve just taken Leopoldo from the house. We don’t know where he is.’ She published grainy footage from the home’s security cameras showing her handcuffed husband being placed in the back of a car.
Momentos en que @leopoldolopez es llevado por funcionarios del SEBIN. ( Sigue sin conocerse su pradero) pic.twitter.com/BrIURSa7q0
— #SOSVenezuela (@aura_rojas) August 1, 2017
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Aug 1, 2017.
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