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Venezuelan Opposition Leader Seeks Peru Asylum

HeadlineApr 23, 2009

A Venezuelan opposition leader is seeking asylum in Peru over what he calls political persecution at home. Manuel Rosales is in the Peruvian capital of Lima, where government officials say they’re examining his asylum request. On Wednesday, a Venezuelan judge ordered Rosales’s arrest on corruption charges.

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