Venezuelan Opposition Leader Barred from Leaving Country

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Prominent Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles said Thursday he was barred from leaving the country after authorities seized his passport while en route to the United Nations to denounce rights abuses by President Nicolás Maduro’s government.

The two-time presidential candidate was scheduled to fly to New York but was stopped by immigration officials at the airport near Caracas, where street protests calling for an end to Mr. Maduro’s authoritarian rule raged for the seventh straight week. Looting and civil unrest have cost at least 44 lives since the beginning of April.

“I’ve been notified that my passport was annulled,” Mr. Capriles said in a video he posted on social media. “My passport has been stolen from me.”

 

He said he would return to street protests in the capital city.

There was no immediate response from the Maduro government, which is facing mounting international criticism over its efforts to silence political dissent. The rights group Foro Penal says the government is holding more than 200 political prisoners as Mr. Maduro fends off almost daily demonstrations around the country, calling for elections that the president has indefinitely postponed.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelan-opposition-leader-barred-from-leaving-country-1495140085

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