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Prominent opposition mayors undeterred by Venezuelan government crack down 1 August 2017: Following the controversial referendum for a national constitutional assembly, Venezuela’s security forces re-arrested two of the country’s most prominent opposition leaders. Antonio Ledezma and Leopoldo Lopez, both former mayors in Caracas and World Mayor finalists, were taken from their homes to the Ramo Verde military prison. The arrests came after some of the mayors of Venezuela’s largest cities voiced their opposition to the government of President Nicolas Maduro and its plans to re-write the country’s constitution. Earlier this year, the mayors of Iribarren and Lecheria were removed from office and convicted to prison sentences for allegedly supporting anti-government protests. Since 2013, eight mayors from the opposition party Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mesa de la Unidad Democrática) were removed from office for political reasons. Mayors and former mayors who oppose President Nicolas Maduro
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