Venezuelan opposition figure detained again hours after being released is under house arrest, says son

Opponent in Venezuela is kidnapped, after leaving jail The son of Juan Pablo Guanipa, one of the opposition leaders in Venezuela, stated that his father is under house arrest in the city of Maracaibo, on the social network X this Tuesday (3). “I confirm that my father, Juan Pablo Guanipa, is at my home in Maracaibo. We are relieved to know that my family will be reunited soon,” he wrote. The announcement comes one day after, this Monday (2), Ramón Guanipa said on social media that his father had been “kidnapped by a group of armed people” around 12 hours after being released. ✅ Follow the g1 international news channel on WhatsApp Who is Juan Pablo Guanipa, opposition politician and ally of María Corina Machado María Corina Machado, winner of last year’s Nobel Peace Prize and an ally of Guanipa, also spoke about the arrest and condemned it: “Juan Pablo Guanipa was kidnapped in the Los Chorros neighborhood, in Caracas. Heavily armed men, in civilian clothes, arrived in four vehicles and took him by force. We demand his immediate release.” Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa REUTERS/Fausto Torrealba Following a complaint from Ramón and the Venezuelan opposition party, the Venezuelan Public Ministry confirmed that he had been rearrested and claimed that Guanipa had violated the terms of his release. Guanipa is a political prisoner of the Chavista regime and has been imprisoned since May 2025 after questioning Nicolás Maduro’s victory in the 2024 elections, in an election marked by a lack of transparency and which the opposition claims to have won. The lawyer, who was also a deputy in the Venezuelan Parliament, is one of the oldest opponents of the country’s government. He had been released on Sunday, along with a group of other political prisoners, after almost a year in prison. The releases of the opposition figures come amid growing pressure faced by Delcy Rodríguez’s government to release hundreds of people whose detentions months or years ago have been linked to their political activities. READ MORE Opposition politicians are released in Venezuela Leader of Venezuela’s National Assembly promises approval of Amnesty Law on Tuesday and release of political prisoners by Friday Venezuela approves general amnesty law in 1st vote for those arrested for political protests See the videos that are trending on g1

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