Maduro Regime Rounds Up Hundreds in Post-Election Crackdown
- Venezuelan opposition figure Superlano hauled away in SUV
- Arrests come as protesters denounce president’s victory claim
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Venezuela’s government is engaging in a full crackdown on any resistance to President Nicolás Maduro’s self-declared victory, announcing 749 arrests and detaining prominent opposition figure Freddy Superlano on Tuesday.
A video shared on social media showed Superlano, who campaigned alongside opposition leader María Corina Machado, being taken out of his car Tuesday and forced into an unmarked SUV by several men in all-black uniforms in a residential neighborhood in Caracas.