{"id":23572,"date":"2024-03-09T19:22:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T00:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/venezuela-arrests-close-ally-of-opposition-leader-machado\/09\/03\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T19:22:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T00:22:36","slug":"venezuela-arrests-close-ally-of-opposition-leader-machado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/venezuela-arrests-close-ally-of-opposition-leader-machado\/09\/03\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela arrests close ally of opposition leader Machado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CARACAS (Reuters) &#8211; Venezuela&#8217;s attorney general on Saturday announced the arrest of a regional campaign leader for opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, citing alleged conspiracy, among other crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General <span class=\"caas-xray-inline-tooltip\"><span class=\"caas-xray-inline caas-xray-entity caas-xray-pill rapid-nonanchor-lt\" data-entity-id=\"Tarek_William_Saab\" data-ylk=\"cid:Tarek_William_Saab;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Politician;\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=Tarek%20William%20Saab\" data-i13n=\"cid:Tarek_William_Saab;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Politician;\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tarek William Saab;cid:Tarek_William_Saab;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Politician;\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tarek William Saab<\/a><\/span><\/span> accused Emill Brandt Ulloa of taking part in violent demonstrations against the government in January, adding he will be prosecuted in an anti-terrorism court in Caracas.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela will hold its next presidential election on July 28, though uncertainty remains over who will be the opposition coalition&#8217;s candidate, since the country&#8217;s top court upheld a ban for Machado to run earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Machado has said her ban was contrived by President Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s government to protect him from a viable challenger.<\/p>\n<p>The Attorney General&#8217;s office is seeking to avoid the anarchy seen in Haiti at the moment, the attorney general wrote in a post on social media platform X when referring to the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Machado&#8217;s ally will also be charged with gender-based violence and insulting an official, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Machado warned earlier on Saturday that the Maduro government had &#8220;kidnapped&#8221; Brandt.<\/p>\n<p>In January, three regional leaders of Machado&#8217;s team were arrested and linked to an alleged conspiracy against the government, according to information from the attorney general&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general said at the time that they were part of a group of at least 11 people who allegedly tried to rob a military facility last year, to then attack Freddy Bernal, the pro-government governor in the state of Tachira, which borders Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Deisy Buitrago; Writing by Valentine Hilaire; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/venezuela-arrests-close-ally-opposition-222409547.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARACAS (Reuters) &ndash; Venezuela&rsquo;s attorney general on Saturday announced the arrest of a regional campaign leader for opposition leader Maria Corina Machado,<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/venezuela-arrests-close-ally-of-opposition-leader-machado\/09\/03\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}