Venezuela's regime
Faced with growing unrest and the prospect of losing parliamentary elections, the president is ratcheting up repression
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.
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