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Venezuela Arrests Former Interior Minister Rodriguez

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Venezuelan security forces on Tuesday detained Miguel Rodriguez, a powerful former interior minister and intelligence chief who broke with Nicolas Maduro’s leftist government, a witness told Reuters. The motives of the detention were not immediately clear. The ruling Socialists have accused Rodriguez of seeking to topple the unpopular Maduro amid Venezuela’s crippling economic crisis that has sparked hunger and disease. Rodriguez, an army major-general who was close to late leader Hugo...

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