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CARACAS
IT WAS a military-style operation, of the kind you would mount to collar a dangerous drug lord. On the afternoon of February 19th dozens of agents of Venezuela's state security service, Sebin, armed with automatic weapons and a sledgehammer (but no arrest warrant) burst into a suite of offices on the sixth floor of a tower block in El Rosal, a normally quiet district of Caracas. Their quarry was not some villain but the 59-year-old mayor of metropolitan Caracas, Antonio Ledezma. After a day and a half in Sebin's custody he was sent to a military jail to await trial on charges of conspiring to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's president.
VENEZUELA'S "Bolivarian" regime is lurching from authoritarianism to dictatorship. On February 19th it arrested the elected mayor of metropolitan Caracas, Antonio Ledezma. Then it moved to expel Julio Borges, a moderate opposition leader, from the National Assembly—a fate already suffered by his colleague, MarÃa Corina Machado, ejected last year. Leopoldo López, another opposition leader, has been in jail for a year and is now on trial. Almost half the opposition's mayors now face legal action. The regime's favourite charge to level at hostile politicians is plotting to overthrow the government, often in conspiracy with the United States. But it is the president, Nicolás Maduro, who is staging a coup against the last vestiges of democracy. Venezuelans call it an autogolpe, or "self-coup".
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