Venezuelan Prosecutor Ties Nicolás Maduro to Arrests

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/world/americas/venezuelan-prosecutor-ties-nicolas-maduro-to-arrests.html?_r=0#

CARACAS, Venezuela — A Venezuelan prosecutor who fled to the United States said this week that an official told him that President Nicolás Maduro had personally ordered the arrest of Leopoldo López, a prominent opposition politician who was detained for his role in antigovernment protests and later sentenced to more than 13 years in prison.

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Mr. Nieves had helped prosecute Mr. López but fled with his family to the United States last week. He then posted a video online calling the case a farce, saying that he was pressured by higher-ups to use false evidence. He also promised to make other revelations.

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“The instructions that he had from President Nicolás Maduro, he told me, ‘from Number One,’ Nicolás Maduro, were to get four arrest warrants,” Mr. Nieves said.
He said that he asked General Bernal for documentation showing what crimes had been committed and that the general had told him he did not have any. Mr. Nieves said that at the general’s instruction he then met with an intelligence officer who he said had concocted the information needed to substantiate the warrants, which were for Mr. López and three other dissidents.