Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro poured into the
streets Friday to condemn the surprise arrest of Caracas' mayor for allegedly
participating in a U.S.-backed plot to overthrow Maduro's government. An armed
commando unit dressed in camouflage raided Mayor Antonio Ledezma's office
Thursday and hauled him away amid protests by his staff. The detention,
recorded by security cameras, set off a wave of spontaneous demonstrations,
with Venezuelans in middle-class enclaves loyal to the opposition banging pots
and pans and blaring their car horns. A few hundred supporters gathered
peacefully Friday in eastern Caracas to denounce Ledezma's
"kidnapping," which they likened to the illegal snatching of
activists by South American military dictatorships in the 1970s. More…
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