Venezuelan opposition leader 'kidnapped' hours after group freed from prison (www.upi.com)
from fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 09 Feb 2026 18:17
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AmidFuror@fedia.io on 09 Feb 2026 21:07 next collapse

Well, that's not good. Very likely this was the ruling party's action, but we can also blame Trump since he claims that he is in charge there (but only a fool would believe it).

RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 2026 03:26 collapse

Not an expert but it could well be factional inflighting between those that want to cooperate with Trump and those that don’t.

andrewrgross@slrpnk.net on 10 Feb 2026 04:07 next collapse

This article is very unclear. Why is the word kidnapped in quotes? Was he not kidnapped? Where is he? Was there a ransom? Why did the government respond by accusing him of violating his parole?

I do not understand what happened.

chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 2026 04:24 collapse

He was just released from prison and kidnapped shortly after. This raises the suspicion that his release was a sham. If that’s the case then he wasn’t really kidnapped since he was never really free, despite being briefly outside prison.

andrewrgross@slrpnk.net on 10 Feb 2026 18:40 collapse

Ok. That sucks.

It seems like this is kind of a problem in Venezuela, what with both major parties appearing to participate in kidnapping the rival’s leader.

I don’t know quite what to do with this information other than oppose US involvement in Venezuela.

IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 2026 13:39 collapse

FARC and ELN elements could view him as some sort of leverage against the USA somehow as well. There’s a lot of reasons President Pedophile was worried about putting soldiers on the ground.