Machado’s appearance at the rally was her first public appearance in months, since a government crackdown on Venezeulan opposition figures and their supporters last year.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been detained in Caracas after joining a protest against President Nicolas Maduro’s planned inauguration for a third term, according to her team. Machado’s political group Comando con Venezuela wrote on X that she was “violently intercepted” while exiting the rally on Thursday. “Regime troops shot at the motorcycles that were transporting her,” the group said.
In several parts of Caracas on Thursday, crowds of opposition supporters slowly swelled with people waving flags and calling for libertad . Supporters were also seen holding “Gonzalez Presidente” signs and blowing vuvuzelas. Meanwhile in Venezuela’s largest barrio Petare, Maduro supporters also assembled in what they call a “march for peace and joy.” Maduro was proclaimed winner of the presidential election in July by electoral authorities under the tight control of the ruling Socialist Party.
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