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Eugene

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Sat Feb 21, 2015, 04:15 AM Feb 2015

Venezuela indicts opposition mayor on charges of conspiring

Source: Reuters

Venezuela indicts opposition mayor on charges of conspiring

BY ANDREW CAWTHORNE AND ALEXANDRA ULMER
CARACAS Fri Feb 20, 2015 11:04pm EST

(Reuters) - Venezuela on Friday indicted a veteran Caracas mayor on charges of plotting violence against President Nicolas Maduro's government and ordered he be jailed in a military prison pending trial.

Maduro, the socialist leader and successor to Hugo Chavez, cast Antonio Ledezma's detention as part of efforts to stop a U.S.-backed coup. Opponents scoffed at that as a smokescreen to distract from Venezuela's economic crisis and staged small protests against what they slammed an authoritarian move.

Intelligence agents had seized the 59-year-old mayor at his office on Thursday.

On Friday night, the state prosecutor's office said he had been indicted for conspiracy and would be jailed in the Ramo Verde military prison, where hardline opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has been locked up for a year.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/21/us-venezuela-opposition-idUSKBN0LO1F820150221
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Venezuela indicts opposition mayor on charges of conspiring (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2015 OP
Is this a political conspiracy? Jacklin999 Feb 2015 #1
Look for MCM to be next. nt COLGATE4 Feb 2015 #2

Jacklin999

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1. Is this a political conspiracy?
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 04:25 AM
Feb 2015

And it would almost surely be terrible politics too.Some poor soui was chosen.

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