Venezuela’s Attorney General Seeks Arrest of Opposition Leader Edmundo Gonzalez

Published on September 3, 2024

Venezuela’s attorney general’s office has requested that an arrest warrant be issued for opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez over his refusal to respond to three summons to testify about an opposition website that published detailed information about the country’s disputed presidential election. The arrest warrant request for the 75-year-old Gonzalez from the Democratic Unity Roundtable, an electronic copy of which was viewed by The Epoch Times, comes as part of a probe into his claim that he was the rightful victor of the July presidential election, in which President Nicolas Maduro was declared by officials as the winner. The accusations leveled against Gonzalez in the arrest warrant request include usurping official functions, forging public documents, instigating public disobedience, conspiracy against the state, and sabotage....

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