CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela attorney general Tarek Saab said on Monday his office has requested an arrest warrant and Interpol notice against opposition figure Leopoldo Lopez, who spent years in detention in Venezuela but has lived in Spain for several years.
Lopez, who has heavily criticized the government over the last few days amid opposition protests against President Nicolas Maduro’s third inauguration, said on X on Saturday that a proposal from former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe that a military intervention was needed in Venezuela should be “seriously considered.”
Lopez is being investigated for the crime of instigating the use of arms against the state, treason, conspiracy and criminal association, Saab said in a remarks on state television.
(Writing by Julia Symmes Cobb)
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