Saturday, July 8, Leopoldo López was released from prison and placed under house arrest after being imprisoned for over three years. Leopoldo López is a Venezuelan politician that founded a political party named Voluntad Popular and co-founded the political party Primero Justicia. He also was the mayor of Chacao from 2000 up to Dec. of 2008.
The Harvard graduate was arrested Sep. 2015 and sentenced to thirteen years after being accused of inciting violent protests. This occurred as a result of the rise of the protests and political demonstrations that arose in 2014 after the country started experiencing high levels of violence, inflation, and food shortages. Many human rights advocates considered his arrest to be unfair as evidence was not concrete while prosecutors claimed that Lopez used subliminal messages to invoke violence.
Leopoldo was part of the opposition activists that were protesting against Venezuelan President Nicolas…
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