Venezuelan Government Arrests Top Opposition Leaders

Reuters: Venezuela security agents seize opposition leaders from homes: family

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan security officials seized two opposition leaders from their homes in overnight raids, their families said on Tuesday, after they urged protests against a new legislative superbody widely denounced as anti-democratic.

Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma were both under house arrest, the former for his role in leading street protests against President Nicolas Maduro in 2014 and the latter on charges of plotting a coup.

"12:27 in the morning: the moment when the dictatorship kidnaps Leopoldo at my house," Lopez's wife Lilian Tintori wrote on Twitter.

She posted a link to a video that appeared to show Lopez being led into a vehicle emblazoned with the word Sebin, Venezuela's intelligence agency.

The Information Ministry did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

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Update #1: Police take 2 Venezuela opposition leaders from homes (AP)
Update #2: Venezuela arrests two top opposition leaders (AFP)

WNU Editor: This is going to be the first of many arrests. But this does not solve the crisis that is griiping Venezuela today .... in fact .... it is going to get worse.