Venezuela's
Ruling Party Wants to
Jail Opposition Leader for Treason
The Venezuelan Congress
Wants prosecutors to open a criminal investigation into Maria Corina Machado, a 46-year-old congresswoman and
Opposition Leader who has become one of the most prominent faces behind the protests that have been
sweeping the country for six weeks.
Members of the United Socialist
Party of Venezuela, led by President Nicolas Maduro, asked the Attorney General to launch a criminal probe to determine whether Machado committed
Treason and other crimes on Tuesday
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The Venezuelan government is going after Machado a month after taking a**ther prominent
Opposition face out of the spotlight. On Feb. 21, Leopoldo Lopez, a former mayor who launched the
Opposition movement “The Exit” earlier this year with Machado,
turned himself in after the government accused him of murder and terrorism for the deaths of three people in the big protests of Feb. 12.
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