Venezuela opposition candidate demands ‘immediate liberation’ of arrested leader Machado

Venezuela’s Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who the opposition says won a July election over incumbent Nicolas Maduro, calls for the “immediate liberation” of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado who was detained after leaving an anti-Maduro rally.

“As president-elect I demand the immediate liberation of Maria Corina Machado,” Gonzalez Urrutia, who went into exile in September, writes on X, appealing to Venezuela’s security forces to “not play with fire.”

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