Venezuelan arrested opposition leader and Caracas
metropolitan mayor Antonio Ledezma on Thursday in a move the government said
was needed to halt a U.S.-backed coup plot but foes decried as tyranny. Intelligence
agents took the 59-year-old veteran politician from his office in the banking
district of Caracas after breaking down doors and firing shots in the air,
witnesses said. "I just saw how they took Ledezma out of his office as if
he were a dog," wrote opposition legislator Ismael Garcia via Twitter.
"They broke down the doors without an arrest warrant." More…

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