In a tweet, National Assembly deputy Edgar Zambrano said agents towed him and his car to prison after he refused to get out of the vehicle
Juan Guaidó and MP Edgar Zambrano of the Democratic Action Party leave after a swearing-in ceremony in Caracas, Venezuela, January 5 2019. Picture: REUTERS/MANAURE QUINTERO— Venezuelan intelligence agents on Wednesday detained a senior leader of the opposition-dominated National Assembly, the first arrest of an MP since the failed uprising against President Nicolas Maduro last week.
“We warn the people of Venezuela and the international community: the regime has kidnapped the first vice-president of the National Assembly,” said Guaido, who heads the body and has been in a power struggle with Maduro since declaring himself acting president in January. Early on Thursday US President Donald Trump – whose country was among the first to back Guaido – said he was “discussing the terrible abuses by Maduro”.
Separately, Venezuela’s Supreme Court indicted three more MPs for backing Guaido’s uprising, which set off two days of clashes between security forces and protesters.The three lawmakers — named as Freddy Superlano, Sergio Vergara and Juan Andres Mejia — are accused of high treason and conspiracy.
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