CNN —Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado says she’s in hiding, fears for her life, and can prove President Nicolas Maduro did not win Sunday’s contentious presidential election.
“I am writing this from hiding, fearing for my life, my freedom,” Machado wrote in an opinion editorial published Thursday by The Wall Street Journal.
Though the country’s Public Ministry later clarified that no arrest warrant had been issued for either opposition figure.
The United States is among numerous countries that have called on Venezuelan electoral officials to publish detailed results from Sunday’s presidential election.
I call on those who reject authoritarianism and support democracy to join the Venezuelan people in our noble cause,” she said.
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