Chile Condemns Brief Detention Of Venezuelan Opposition Parliament Speaker
Umer Jamshaid Published January 13, 2019 | 11:03 PM
BUENOS AIRES (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 13th January, 2019) The Chilean government has criticized Venezuela after its opposition parliament speaker Juan Guaido was briefly detained on a road near Caracas.
"The government of Chile condemns in the strongest terms the arrest this morning for almost an hour of the president of the National Assembly," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Chile was one of the Lima Group of countries who refused to recognize the re-election in May of President Nicolas Maduro for a second term and urged the National Assembly to take over as caretaker government to organize a new vote.
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