It appears the man who sits in the presidential palace in Venezuela may have bitten off more than he can chew, with his administration’s latest corrupt action. As my colleague Ward Clark previously wrote, on Thursday, according to multiple sources, authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro reportedly ordered state police to arrest Maria Corina Machado, a rival candidate in the last presidential election who has been in hiding for months:
…Venezuelans have been under the boot of Nicolás Maduro for a while now, and he’s making sure his political opposition doesn’t amount to much – even to the point of having them reportedly detained by the police.
Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s aides said she was detained on Thursday, followed moments later by official denials of her arrest, in a confusing episode that capped a day of protests seeking to…
