Venezuela's opposition calls for investigation of slaying and attack
Opposition politicians called on President Nicolas Maduro's government to investigate the slaying of a Baralt City Council candidate and an attack on a former presidential candidate's caravan, events that have added to tension less than two weeks before municipal elections Dec. 8.
"Those of us in the opposition abhor violence of any kind, from whatever source, that has us sunk in horror and fear of not being safe in any corner of Venezuela," National Assembly member Delsa Solorzano of the New Era party, which is part of the opposition Democratic Unity coalition, said Wednesday.
Jose "Cheo" Chirinos, 34, an opposition candidate for the City Council of Baralt in the western state of Zulia was shot to death by two assailants Tuesday after he left a radio station interview, police said. His killers were seen speeding away on a motorcycle. Two others were wounded in the attack.
Also Tuesday, a caravan carrying Miranda state Gov. Henrique Capriles, who was defeated by Maduro in a special presidential election this year after the death of President Hugo Chavez, was attacked in Maracay by motorcyclists who threw firecrackers and a Molotov cocktail at the vehicle in which Capriles was speaking. No one was hurt, but the vehicle was heavily damaged.
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