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Weekly Report - 23 November 2017 (WR-17-46)
VENEZUELA: Daring escape raises questions about dialogue
He had to pass 29 control points on a 15-hour flight along Venezuelan back roads to the Colombian border city of Cúcuta, but Antonio Ledezma seemed full of energy when he arrived in Spain on 18 November after escaping house arrest in Caracas. The former metropolitan mayor of Caracas was one of the most prominent opposition politicians to have been imprisoned by the government led by President Nicolás Maduro. His escape coincided with the Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD) opposition coalition’s acceptance of new talks with the Maduro administration. In a Madrid press conference, Ledezma dismissed the “parody” of a dialogue process which he said had only led to “more deaths, more prisoners, and more persecution”.
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