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Venezuela’s top pros­e­cu­tor said on Mon­day that his of­fice had re­quest­ed the ar­rest of one of the clos­est al­lies of op­po­si­tion leader María Co­ri­na Macha­do, less than 12 hours af­ter his re­lease from a de­ten­tion fa­cil­i­ty as part of a gov­ern­ment move to free those fac­ing po­lit­i­cal­ly mo­ti­vat­ed ac­cu­sa­tions.

The at­tor­ney gen­er­al’s state­ment did not say whether Juan Pablo Gua­ni­pa was re­ar­rest­ed or give in­di­ca­tion of his where­abouts.

The gov­ern­ment had re­leased him along with sev­er­al oth­er promi­nent op­po­si­tion mem­bers on Sun­day fol­low­ing lengthy po­lit­i­cal­ly mo­ti­vat­ed de­ten­tions.