Venezuela Opposition Activist Shot Dead, Party Says

A local Venezuelan opposition leader was shot dead during a public meeting on Wednesday, his party said, days before a legislative election that is raising tensions around the politically polarized nation. Armed assailants in a vehicle shot Luis Diaz, head of Democratic Action party in Altagracia de Orituco in central Venezuela, while he was at a meeting with locals, the movement's national leader said. "He's just been assassinated by gunshot," Henry Ramos tweeted,...

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