Venezuela's president 'revealed authoritarian face by arresting Caracas's mayor'

Venezuela's president is panicking over falling popularity and has revealed his authoritarian face by arresting Caracas's mayor, the opposition politician's wife said. Antonio Ledezma, 59, was seized by intelligence agents in his office on Thursday and charged the next day for "conspiring" against Nicolas Maduro's socialist government which has been alleging a US-backed coup plot. In an interview on Sunday, his wife Mitzy, 64, said it was in fact Maduro displaying his dictatorial tendencies by locking up the veteran politician ahead of important parliamentary elections due for later in 2015. "Maduro [the president] is terrorised, panicked by the opposition. He knows that every day there are more opponents," Mitzy Ledezma said. More…