The Latest: Allies Say Venezuelan Oppos'n Figures Taken Away


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DATE: Aug. 1, 2017, 9:22 a.m.

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  1. CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Latest on the political circumstance in Venezuela (all circumstances nearby):
  2. 4:05 a.m.
  3. Partners of two Venezuelan resistance pioneers say Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma have been taken by specialists from the homes where they were under house capture.
  4. Video posted on the Twitter record of Lopez's better half early Tuesday demonstrates a man being detracted from a Caracas home by state security operators. Spouse Lilian Tintori says in a tweet that "they've quite recently taken Leopoldo from the house. We don't know where he is."
  5. Lopez was kept three years after challenges against President Nicolas Maduro's legislature and condemned to over 10 years in jail on charges that incorporate inducing nonconformists to savagery. He was discharged a month ago to serve whatever is left of his term under house capture. Ledezma, a previous Caracas chairman, was additionally confined in 2015 and has been under house capture.
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  7. 12 a.m.
  8. President Nicolas Maduro got over new U.S. endorses on him and judgment at home and abroad of the recently picked sacred get together, saying the vote has given him a well known command to profoundly update Venezuela's political framework.
  9. Maduro said Monday evening he had no goal of going amiss from his intends to change the constitution and pursue a series of foes, from autonomous Venezuelan news channels to shooters he guaranteed were sent by neighboring Colombia to disturb the vote as a major aspect of a universal intrigue drove by the man he calls "Sovereign Donald Trump."
  10. "They don't scare me. The dangers and authorizations of the domain don't scare me for a minute," Maduro said on national TV. "I don't tune in to orders from the realm, not currently or ever ... Expedite more authorizes, Donald Trump."
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