The wife and mother of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez stood outside his prison on Thursday, demanding to see him after rumors about his health rattled the protest-hit country overnight. President Nicolas Maduro's leftist government later issued a short video in which Lopez, standing in front of cell bars, says he is fine. I'm sending a message to my family and my children that I am well," said Lopez, 46, wearing a sleeveless white shirt and crossing his arms. But Lopez's wife Lilian Tintori, who says she has not been allowed to see her spouse in over a month, rejected that as evidence that he was alive. The government retorts the opposition is secretly seeking to stoke a coup and says many demonstrators are little more than vandals.

Source: The Star May 04, 2017 13:07 UTC