Grisly killing of Caracas woman becomes political battleground in hyper-polarized Venezuela

After their arrest, the socialist administration said the two had been working with the government critics to destabilize the country. Officials went on to suggest that the opposition politicians bore direct responsibility for Hergueta's brutal death. But opposition media reported that the two men were actually undercover agents sent to infiltrate the anti-government movement and help authorities arrest dissidents. Runrunes, a website linked to one of the country's main opposition journalists, reported that the men posed as persecuted student leaders and befriended actual activists, then sold them out to the country's intelligence service. At least one of the activists they took up with is still in jail a year later, according to the report. More…