Venezuelan general appears in NY after 11 months on the run
A dissident Venezuelan general who has been in hiding for nearly a year emerged Thursday for a public appearance in New York.
Retired Brig. Gen. Antonio Rivero has been on the run since President Nicolas Maduro ordered his arrest last spring, accusing him of training "fascists" to foment unrest during street protests that rocked the socialist South American country.
On Thursday, Rivero spoke to journalists outside the United Nations in his first public appearance in 11 months. He said he had not seen his family in a year, and had been living in "difficult conditions." He traveled to New York to ask the world body fight for his cause.
He said the U.N.'s Working Committee on Arbitrary Detentions spoke out in his behalf in 2013 when he was jailed briefly on charges of inciting unrest after the country's disputed presidential election. Now, he is asking them to again tell Maduro to stop persecuting him.
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