The socialist regime in Venezuela briefly detained opposition leader María Corina Machado amid gunshots on Thursday after she made her first public appearance in months.
Machado, who leads Venezuela’s only mainstream center-right party, Vente Venezuela, remained in hiding for months facing threats of arrest after the socialist regime issued an arrest warrant against exiled opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González, forcing him to flee to Spain in September. Over the past year, dozens of Vente Venezuela members, including key staff members of Machado’s team, have been persecuted and arbitrarily imprisoned by the Maduro regime.
Machado publicly reappeared in Caracas on Thursday afternoon to participate in one of the nationwide peaceful protests that the opposition convened to protest against socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s new illegitimately
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