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Venezuela: Tension after opposition politician is shot dead
There is rising tension in politically polarised Venezuela after an opposition politician was shot dead during a public meeting days before a legislative election.
Reports say Luis Diaz, head of the Democratic Action party was shot by gunmen in a vehicle while he was in a meeting with locals in the town of Altagracia de Ortico in central Venezuela.
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“He’s just been assassinated by gunshot,” Henry Ramos said in a tweet, adding Diaz was sharing the stage at the time with Lilian Tintori, wife of Venezuela’s best-known jailed opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez when he was shot dead.
Democratic Action is part of the opposition Democratic Unity coalition about to contest a December 6 election for a new National Assembly in Venezuela.
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