Venezuelan goverment detains top opposition leader Maria Corina Machado in violent raid
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The Nicolas Maduro regime arrested Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Thursday after opening fire against the driver of the motorcycle in which she was riding, people close to her team said.
The opposition leader, who had appeared in public for the first time on Thursday after having remained in hiding for four months, was forcefully picked up after she fell on the street. Opposition members said they did not know her physical condition.
The version of events was confirmed Thursday afternoon by Machado’s team.
“Maria Corina was violently intercepted as she left the demonstration in Chacao,” a neighborhood sector of Caracas, her team said on its X account. “We hope to confirm her situation in minutes. Regime forces fired on the motorcycles that were transporting her.”
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