Fight intensifies between Maduro and opposition over political prisoners

The government said it had confiscated the phone, which contained the recording of López’s call for mass demonstrations, and decided to play the video on state-run television “to demonstrate López’s insistence on organizing a coup.”  “They didn’t allow us to enter Ramo Verde prison because López was being punished. But if it is so bad to sneak a phone into jail, why don’t they arrest the director of the state-run television station who was broadcasting all week long the message that López recorded on the phone?” the former president asked. “And I don’t know whose brilliant idea it was to take Daniel Ceballos to prison where common criminals are held, dress him in yellow pajamas and shave his head” in order to show – maybe inadvertently – a graphic image of repression, Quiroga added. More…