Venezuelans fear mass arrests

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Opposition leader María Corina Machado

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Venezuelans fear for relatives after mass arrests

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Venezuelan government says more than 1,000 people have been arrested in protests.

Opposition leader María Corina Machado has called for protests in every city’ in Venezuela on Saturday against President Maduro and the disputed election result.

She has been waiting anxiously outside the police station where she believes her son is.

She says her son was accused of terrorism’ which can carry a sentence of years in prison.

President Maduro called the opposition leaders a perverse and macabre duo’ who have to take responsibility” for protesters he described as “criminals” He has strongly denied electoral fraud and has accused the opposition of instigating a “coup” But US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington rejected Mr Maduro ’s unsubstantiated allegations’ against opposition leaders.

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