After his release: Leopoldo López is a refugee at the Embassy of Chile in Caracas

CARACAS – Chile's Minister of Foreign Affairs Roberto Ampuero confirmed that the Venezuelan opposition leader

Leopoldo Lopez

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Today, he was released from house arrest during a day of high tension in Caracas. He is in the diplomatic residence of Chile.

"Lilian Tintori and her daughter came as guests of our diplomatic mission to Caracas, and a few minutes ago, their wife, Leopoldo López, who stays with her family in Chile, reaffirms her commitment to the Venezuelan Democrats." said the Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs. on Twitter.

Lopez, pardoned by Guaidó in his role as acting president, was taken from his home this morning by soldiers who drove him to the vicinity of the La Carlota military air base, at the start of an uprising. , which was still not resolved this afternoon. designed to expel the president of the government

Nicolás Maduro

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Lopez and six soldiers asked to be admitted to the Chilean embbady, ​​but after consulting the Foreign Ministry in Santiago, only the leader of the Voluntad Popular Party (VP) was admitted, according to political and diplomatic sources . Lopez was sentenced to nearly fourteen years in prison for inciting violence in the context of the 2014 opposition riots.

The refuge in an embbady is usually the previous stage of the asylum application in this country.

In the Chilean Embbady in Caracas, opposition leaders Roberto Enríquez for more than two years and Freddy Guevara have been refugees for a year and a half.

Telam, DPA and Reuters agencies