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Venezuela AG requests Interpol red notice for opposition's Leopoldo Lopez

Venezuela attorney general of the United States Tarek Saab said on Monday his office has actually asked for an arrest warrant and Interpol red notification versus opposition figure Leopoldo Lopez, who spent years in detention in Venezuela and has actually lived in Spain given that 2020.

Lopez has actually slammed the federal government in current days amidst opposition protests to President Nicolas Maduro's third inauguration. Lopez stated on X on Saturday that a proposal from former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe that military intervention was required in Venezuela ought to be seriously. considered.

Maduro was sworn in for another six-year term on Friday. regardless of a disagreement over who won the 2024 election. He has actually led the. nation because 2013 and commanded a long social and economic. crisis.

Lopez is being investigated for instigating using arms. versus the state, treason, conspiracy and criminal association,. Saab stated in remarks on state tv.

Lopez was put behind bars in Venezuela in 2014 for leading. demonstrations versus Maduro and then transferred to house arrest in 2017. In 2019, he once again appeared at street demonstrations and then took. refuge at the Spanish ambassador's house, leaving Venezuela. in 2020.

Lopez did not immediately react to an ask for. comment but a representative for his Popular Will celebration said it. unconditionally rejected the warrant request.

An Interpol Red Notification is a demand made to police. worldwide that an individual implicated of a severe criminal offense be located. and apprehended.

Interpol did not immediately react to an ask for. comment.

Maduro was stated the winner of July's governmental. election by both Venezuela's electoral authority and leading court,. though detailed tallies verifying his success have never ever been. published.

Venezuela's opposition states ballot box-level tallies. show a landslide win for its former candidate Edmundo Gonzalez,. who is recognized as president-elect by several nations,. consisting of the United States. International election observers. said the vote was not democratic.

Since the election, Gonzalez has actually fled to Spain, his ally. Maria Corina Machado went into concealing in Venezuela and. high-profile opposition figures and protesters have been. detained.

Gonzalez had promised to return to Venezuela to be sworn in. as president, but the opposition said on Friday afternoon that. was not presently feasible.

Machado was quickly apprehended at a march on Thursday and. stated the motorcyclist traveling with her had been shot and after that. apprehended.

The Venezuelan government on Monday published a video they. stated revealed the motorcyclist, who recounted hiding out at a. hotel and stated he was unscathed.

(source: Reuters)