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(6,837 posts) Thu Jun 18, 2015, 09:14 PM Jun 2015

Brazil senators say bus attacked on Venezuela visit to prisoners

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Brazilian senators seeking to visit jailed opposition leaders in Venezuela on Thursday said their minibus was stoned and blocked, forcing them to return to the airport.

The group of opposition senators had planned to drive from the coastal airport to the capital Caracas and then on to a military jail where hardline opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has been for more than a year.

"Our bus was under siege; they were beating and trying to break it," tweeted one of the senators, Ronaldo Caiado.

"I filmed them throwing stones against the bus."

ttp://news.yahoo.com/brazil-senators-bus-attacked-venezuela-visit-prisoners-204137579.html

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1. Venezuela legislators slam Brazil counterparts' prison visit
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Fri Jun 19, 2015, 05:37 PM
Jun 2015

Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party legislators called a trip by Brazilian senators to visit jailed opponents of President Nicolas Maduro "abusive" and "meddling" on Friday.

The Brazilian delegation's visit on Thursday was cut short after they said their minibus was stoned by Maduro supporters and roads were blocked, forcing them to return to the airport and fly back the same day.

The Brazilian senators had hoped to visit detained politicians including hardline leader Leopoldo Lopez, on a partial hunger strike in a military prison, and Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma, who is under house arrest.

Members of Maduro's Socialist Party said the half-dozen Brazilians were part of a right-wing international conspiracy.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/19/us-venezuela-brazil-senators-idUSKBN0OZ2DL20150619

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