On Thursday Venezuelan authorities arrested Coromoto Rodriguez, the head of security for opposition politician and president of the opposition-controlled National Assembly Henry Ramos Allup, on suspicion of planning attacks against police officers during an anti-government protest on Wednesday.

President Nicolas Maduro said that the „mastermind who paid these terrorists to beat this female police officer is already in jail. He was captured, he will be tried and sent to a maximum security prison. He‘s an old torturer from the Fourth Republic.“