wo Venezuelan opposition politicians on partial
hunger-strike in jail are losing weight, but maintaining their demands
including the release of fellow imprisoned anti-government activists, their
supporters said. Leopoldo Lopez, 44, and
Daniel Ceballos, 31, were imprisoned during months of anti-government unrest
last year. President Nicolas Maduro calls them criminals who want to unseat
him, while their supporters abroad and in Venezuela view them as symbolic
political prisoners. A former Caracas
district mayor, Lopez has for 10 days ingested only water and a nutrient serum,
his family said. “He’s thin,” his mother Antonieta Mendoza said in an
interview. “He has lost six kilos but I’m impressed by his strength and clarity
of thought.” Ceballos, formerly the mayor of the western city of San Cristobal,
stopped eating properly 12 days ago and appears to be in a worse physical
condition, his supporters said. More…
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