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Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido briefly detained
[Al Jazeera] Venezuelan intelligence agents have released opposition leader and congress chief Juan Guaido after briefly detaining him on the way to a political rally, a congressional official has said.A video posted on social media appears to show the moment Guaido was pulled from a car on a highway by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin) on Sunday as he was travelling out of the capital, Caracas. While it was not possible to identify the individual in the video, his wife and opposition politicians said that he were tossed into the calaboose. He was released about an hour later, they added. At a rally shortly afterwards, Guaido told opposition supporters "the game has changed", the Rooters news agency reported. "Here we are! We are not afraid!," Guaido said. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? the detention was an "irregular procedure" by rogue agents who wanted to help the opposition create a "media show," adding that the agents would face disciplinary action, Rooters reported. The Lima Group - made up of a bloc of countries from the Americas including Brazil, Canada and Mexico - issued a statement condemning the "arbitrary detention". Posted by: Fred 2019-01-14 |
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