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Caracas mayor arrested on ‘coup plot’ claims
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The Washington Post ^
| February 20 | Nick Miroff
Calling the twice-elected Ledezma "a vampire," Maduro vowed an "iron fist" response to the alleged coup plot.
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Venezuela police raid arrests Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma ("carried him away"'if he were a dog')
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BBC News ^
| 2/19/2015 | BBC
The mayor of Venezuela's capital, Antonio Ledezma, has been arrested amid accusations of a coup attempt. President
Nicolas Maduro said the opposition leader must answer "for all the crimes committed against the country's peace and security." Camouflaged police smashed into the mayor's office and carried him away...... Hundreds of people gathered at the intelligence agency's HQ in Caracas to protest at the arrest..... Mr. Ledezma was on a list of people and foreign powers named by Mr. Maduro last week as attempting to bring down his administration. Mr. Ledezma, Caracas mayor since 2008, replied that it was government corruption that...
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With goods scarce in Caracas’s stores, street sales boom and officials glower
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Washington Post ^
| November 13, 2014 | Nick Miroff
The sprawling street market that radiates outward from the metro station in Petare, Caracas’s largest slum, is the retail equivalent of an anti-Target. There’s no organization to it. Tube
socks and school supplies are sold beside giant pyramids of pineapple and piled yucca. Leopard-print hot pants stretch over mannequin buttocks next to the stinky stalls of fishmongers. The bazaar was known until this month as one of the city’s biggest open-air black markets, the place to find all the scarce items that shoppers must queue up for hours to get in supermarkets, or can’t find at all. Earlier this year,...
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