Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro ordered the arrest of presidential opponent Edmundo González on Monday as the country looks to quell dissent over the results of its recent election that Maduro claims without evidence that he won.
Venezuelan prosecutors sought an arrest warrant for Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia on Monday for claiming that Maduro stole the election.
Maduro asked for the arrest of Gonzalez Urrutia, a retired diplomat who went into hiding shortly after the election.
Prosecutors have charged him with “‘usurpation’ of public functions, ‘forgery’ of a public document, incitement to disobedience, sabotage, and ‘association’ with organized crime and financiers of ‘terrorism,’” according to the AFP.
A Venezuelan court authorized the arrest warrant on Monday evening.
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