On Tuesday, Venezuelan security forces snatched the country’s two most visible opposition leaders, Leopoldo López and Antonio Ledezma, from their own homes where they lived under house arrest for a number of years. Against the backdrop of months-long protests and state-sanctioned violence, the two men remained relatively quiet, waiting for the right moment to reassert themselves in the public eye. But the prospect of reemergence has been nipped in the bud by a state desperate to keep its defiant people in line.
Watch as the political prisoners are dragged out of their homes by security forces:
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