Chile's Lagos criticizes Venezuela's Maduro
Former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos is joining more than two dozen other ex-leaders in urging greater respect for human rights in Venezuela.
Lagos complained Monday that Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro hasn't even allowed the International Red Cross to visit jailed opposition leaders. He says that even Gen. Augusto Pinochet "allowed the Red Cross into Chile," during his 1973-1990 dictatorship.
"When you see someone who has been held for a year in extremely harsh conditions, or when 100 people, mostly hooded, kidnap a mayor and he ends up jailed without any court order, or when the United Nations says that there are more than 80 political prisoners, then obviously human rights are being violated," Lagos said after meeting with the wives of jailed Venezuelan opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma.
At least 25 other ex-leaders from Spain and Latin America recently signed a declaration decrying "political persecution of opponents" in Venezuela.
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