Bloomberg: Venezuela's Maduro Regime Steps Up Crackdown on Dissidents
* Secret police raid home of former public prosecutor Ortega
* Constituent assembly orders investigation of opposition heads
Venezuela’s government is intensifying its crackdown on critics of President Nicolas Maduro, ordering the detention of the husband of former Public Prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz and separate investigations of prominent opposition leaders.
Ortega said in a post on her Twitter account that secret police were raiding the family’s home in Caracas. The Supreme Court later ordered the arrest of her lawmaker husband, German Ferrer, accusing him of leading an extortion ring out of the prosecutor’s office.
“It’s revenge for fighting against the totalitarianism that exists in Venezuela,” she wrote on Twitter, blaming the raid on Maduro and Diosdado Cabello, a high-ranking socialist party official who brought the suit against her husband. Ortega had been the highest-ranking member of Maduro’s administration to break ranks with the government before she was deposed this month by a newly convened legislative super body, the constituyente. She has since fled and gone into hiding.
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WNU Editor: This is only going to get more intense. Unfortunately .... this is not going to solve Venezuela's problems of limited food, limited medicines, and hyper-inflation. On the contrary, it is only going to make it worse.
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