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Who is Leopoldo López, the newly freed opposition leader behind Venezuela's uprising?

  • Written by Marco Aponte-Moreno, Assistant Professor of Global Business and Member of the Institute for Latino and Latin American Studies, St Mary's College of California
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López has been freed by his captors from house arrest and is backing a coup attempt against the Maduro government.AFP/YouTube

Venezuela’s crisis has escalated to new levels.

In the early morning hours of April 30, Juan Guaidó – the leader of the Venezuelan National Assembly, who swore...

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