{"id":6428,"date":"2024-03-10T10:50:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T10:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/2024\/03\/10\/venezuela-arrests-close-ally-of-opposition-leadermachado\/"},"modified":"2024-03-10T10:50:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T10:50:37","slug":"venezuela-arrests-close-ally-of-opposition-leadermachado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/2024\/03\/10\/venezuela-arrests-close-ally-of-opposition-leadermachado\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela arrests close ally of opposition leader\nMachado"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"71\">\n<div id=\"imgCarousel\" class=\"imgCarousel\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Venezuela arrests close ally of opposition leader Machado\" id=\"carouselImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i-invdn-com.investing.com\/trkd-images\/LYNXNPEK2809L_L.jpg\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"text\">\u00a9 Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks during an interview with Reuters, in Caracas, Venezuela February 9, 2024. REUTERS\/Gaby Oraa\/File Photo<\/span><br \/>\n<i class=\"imgGrad\"><\/i>\n<\/div>\n<p>CARACAS (Reuters) &#8211; Venezuela&#8217;s attorney general on Saturday announced the arrest of a regional campaign leader for opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, citing alleged conspiracy, among other crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Tarek William Saab accused Emill Brandt Ulloa of taking part in violent demonstrations against the government in January, adding he will be prosecuted in an anti-terrorism court in Caracas. <\/p>\n<p>Venezuela will hold its next presidential election on July 28, though uncertainty remains over who will be the opposition coalition&#8217;s candidate, since the country&#8217;s top court upheld a ban for Machado to run earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>Machado has said her ban was contrived by President Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s government to protect him from a viable challenger. <\/p>\n<p>The Attorney General&#8217;s office is seeking to avoid the anarchy seen in Haiti at the moment, the attorney general wrote in a post on social media platform X when referring to the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Machado&#8217;s ally will also be charged with gender-based violence and insulting an official, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Machado warned earlier on Saturday that the Maduro government had &#8220;kidnapped&#8221; Brandt. <\/p>\n<p>In January, three regional leaders of Machado&#8217;s team were arrested and linked to an alleged conspiracy against the government, according to information from the attorney general&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general said at the time that they were part of a group of at least 11 people who allegedly tried to rob a military facility last year, to then attack Freddy Bernal, the pro-government governor in the state of Tachira, which borders Colombia. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks during an interview with Reuters, in Caracas, Venezuela February 9, 2024. REUTERS\/Gaby Oraa\/File Photo CARACAS (Reuters) &#8211; Venezuela&#8217;s attorney general on Saturday announced the arrest of a regional campaign leader for opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, citing alleged conspiracy, among other crimes. Attorney General&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}