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Barbara AGELVIS

FOUND: Wanted venezuelan candidate says opposition facing persecution - What They Never Told You

The opposition insists Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia was the rightful winner of July 28 presidential elections in Venezuela (Credit: AFP)

Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, threatened with arrest for insisting he was the rightful winner of July presidential elections, urged prosecutors Wednesday not to partake in what he called political persecution.

Gonzalez Urrutia is the target of an arrest warrant issued Monday over the opposition's insistence that incumbent President Nicolas Maduro stole the July 28 vote.

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