Maduro Says Thousands Arrested, Threatens Legal Action Against Opponent

  • 2 months ago
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says he’ll give heavy punishments to the 2000 people arrested in protests against his strongly contested re-election victory.

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00:00Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has threatened legal action against the opposition candidate
00:05after he was internationally recognized as the winner of the country's poll.
00:09Everything you said, Mr. González Urrutia, goes to the file, and at the moment the sentence
00:17is decided, you have serious legal consequences for disobeying the Constitution, the courts
00:25and the laws.
00:26Numerous foreign governments, including the U.S., have recognized Edmundo González as
00:31the actual winner of Venezuela's recent election.
00:34However, Maduro claims to have won that election and has yet to respond to calls to release
00:38vote tallies.
00:39He has also said that he would give the quote, maximum punishment to the 2,000 people detained
00:44for protesting the election result.

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