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World must confront Maduro’s ‘campaign of terror’, Venezuelan opposition leader says

World must confront Maduro’s ‘campaign of terror’, Venezuelan opposition leader says

María Corina Machado in hiding as more than 1,300 people are detained in post-election clampdown

Venezuela’s main opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has accused the country’s strongman president, Nicolás Maduro, of unleashing a horrific “campaign of terror” in an attempt to cling on to power.

Two weeks after Maduro’s widely questioned claim to have won the 28 July election, human rights activists say he has launched a ferocious clampdown designed to silence those convinced his rival Edmundo González was the actual winner. More than 1,300 people have been detained, including 116 teenagers, according to the rights group Foro Penal. At least 24 people have reportedly been killed.

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