Venezuelan opposition leader seized by armed men after being released from jail

María Corina Machado said Monday that a Venezuelan absorption person was seized successful Caracas soon aft being released from jail.

Machado wrote successful a station connected X that Juan Pablo Guanipa, a cardinal ally, was kidnapped by heavy equipped men successful civilian covering successful the Los Chorros country of the capital.

"We request his contiguous release," she said.

Alfredo Romero, the president of the Venezuelan quality rights radical Foro Penal, said 35 governmental prisoners were released connected Sunday, including Guanipa, who was initially arrested successful May.

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Opposition person Maria Corina Machado and Juan Pablo Guanipa enactment successful an anti-government protestation connected Jan. 9, 2025, successful Caracas, Venezuela. (Alfredo Lasry R/Getty Images)

Reuters reported that Venezuelan authorities were seeking tribunal support to spot Guanipa nether location arrest.

The country’s Public Ministry alleged that helium violated the presumption of his merchandise but provided nary further details and did not accidental whether helium had been re-arrested.

Guanipa’s Primero Justicia enactment said connected X that helium was forced into a metallic Toyota Corolla during the incident.

Juan Pablo Guanipa, absorption person and precocious released from prison, visits relatives of governmental prisoners adjacent the El Helicoide detention halfway successful Caracas connected Feb. 8, 2026. (Jesus Vargas/picture confederation via Getty Images)

"We hold Delcy Rodríguez, Jorge Rodríguez, and Diosdado Cabello liable for immoderate harm to Juan Pablo's life," the enactment wrote. "We telephone connected the planetary assemblage for the contiguous merchandise of Juan Pablo Guanipa and for an contiguous and unconditional extremity to the persecution of the opposition."

The U.S. State Department did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

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Rodríguez has been serving arsenic the interim president of Venezuela since the U.S. seizure of Nicolás Maduro and his woman Cilia Flores earlier this year.

Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez speaks during the presumption of the 2025 fund measure astatine the National Assembly successful Caracas connected Dec. 3, 2024. (Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images)

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In precocious January, President Donald Trump said Venezuela was releasing governmental prisoners astatine a "rapid rate," praising the determination arsenic a "powerful humanitarian gesture" by the country’s leadership.

An estimated 687 governmental prisoners stay successful custody successful Venezuela arsenic of Feb. 2, according to Foro Penal.