Venezuela’s top prosecutor said on Monday that his office had requested the arrest of one of the closest allies of opposition leader María Corina Machado, less than 12 hours after his release from a d...

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said her opposition colleague Juan Pablo Guanipa had been kidnapped just hours after being released from detention.

Guanipa’s son, Ramon, referred to his father’s seizure on Monday as an “abduction”, saying a group of about 10 unidentified, armed people had taken him.