Leopoldo López, a Venezuelan opposition leader, was taken from his house in Caracas in the early hours of Tuesday morning and jailed again as the authoritarian leftwing government of President Nicólas Maduro extended its crackdown on its opponents.
CCTV video footage showed Mr López, the country’s best-known political prisoner, being marched out of his house by heavily armed masked men and bundled into the back of car that carried insignia of the SEBIN, the country’s intelligence service. His wife and political activist Lilian Tintori confirmed the detention on Twitter.
Across town at around the same time, officers in SEBIN uniforms seized Antonio Ledezma, an opposition mayor who had been under house arrest since last year.
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