Prayer: Two Opposition Leaders Jailed, as Venezuela Falls into Apparent Dictatorship

Michael Weissenstein, AP : Aug 1, 2017
ABC News

(Caracas, Venezuela)—[AP] Two of Venezuela's leading opposition figures were taken from their homes in the middle of the night by state security agents on Tuesday in President Nicolas Maduro's government's first moves against prominent enemies since a widely denounced vote granting the ruling party nearly unlimited powers. The Venezuelan Supreme Court said in a statement that Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma had violated the terms of their house arrest by criticizing the government in messages released on social media in recent days... Click here to read. (Photo: A message on a wall formed with Venezuelan currency that reads in Spanish: "The Constituent Assembly is a fraud", in Caracas, Venezuela/AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos/via ABC News)