Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López hands himself in to police
Harvard-educated politician denies charges of terrorism for his alleged role in violent anti-government protests
Venezuela's opposition leader Leopoldo López has handed himself in to the authorities after coming out of hiding to attend a rally of supporters in Caracas.
After the protests that left three people dead last week, there was relief on the streets that a violent repeat might be avoided. Lopéz's defiance in recent days appears to have raised his profile as a figurehead of the resistance to President Nicolás Maduro.
One of those students studied at the same University I study. Worst part about the whole thing, it was Maduro himself who sent the police to hurt everyone who went out today to fight for a peaceful Venezuela.
NTN24 the only tv channel that was airing the rallies was taken off the air.
Venezuela is a DICTATORSHIP!!! the world needs to know!!
One of my professors gave an interview to that channel and he informed it was taken out of the air. Two students were taken into custody by the police in my city today and they didn't have orders to get them, they simply got into their houses and took them out. Venezuelan policemen are doing what they want and it was the Government itself who gave them permission.
I cannot even at there being any implications of the deceased being a supporter of Maduro's. I hope this movement isn't just today. We need to get out there and make ourselves heard or nothing will change.
I'll sadly claim this country is in dictatorship as of now.
I cannot even at there being any implications of the deceased being a supporter of Maduro's. I hope this movement isn't just today. We need to get out there and make ourselves heard or nothing will change.
I'll sadly claim this country is in dictatorship as of now.
He wasn't a Maduros supporter, he was a student at La Universidad Alejandro de Humboldt and 98% of the student population there does not want him as president. CNN is interviewing one of the students who was around Bassil the moment he got shot.
OMG they kidnapped students from all the rallies, there are a lot of them missing and their families are looking for them, this is awful!
Lots of them. I just read two students from my university were taken into custody too and they're making the Government responsible for what could happen to them. Plus, National television isn't reporting anything, that is why CNN is doing that special.
the world needs to know!!
