Venezuela's Maduro Regime Steps Up Crackdown on Dissidents
- Secret police raid home of former public prosecutor Ortega
- Constituent assembly orders investigation of opposition heads
Venezuela Inches Closer to Dictatorship
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Venezuela’s government is intensifying its crackdown on critics of President Nicolas Maduro, ordering the detention of the husband of former Public Prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz and separate investigations of prominent opposition leaders.
Ortega said in a post on her Twitter account that secret police were raiding the family’s home in Caracas. The Supreme Court later ordered the arrest of her lawmaker husband, German Ferrer, accusing him of leading an extortion ring out of the prosecutor’s office.