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Apr 29, 1971 Caracas, Capital District, Venezuela 53 years old
Venezuelan politician
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About Leopoldo López
- Leopoldo Eduardo López Mendoza (born 29 April 1971) is a Venezuelan politician and former political prisoner.
- He co-founded the political party Primero Justicia in 2000 with Henrique Capriles Radonski and Julio Borges and was elected mayor of the Chacao Municipality of Caracas in the regional elections held in July 2000.
- He is the National Coordinator of another political party, Voluntad Popular, a Socialist International affiliated party, which he founded in 2009.
- López has received multiple awards from NGOs and other organizations for his activism. Administrative sanctions were imposed on López by Venezuela's Comptroller's Office in 2004, disqualifying him from holding public office for six years (beginning in 2008, at the completion of his term as mayor, until 2014), following allegations of nepotism and misappropriation of funds.
- Opposition groups in Venezuela criticized these charges as fabricated.
- López supporters say he was never charged with a crime, tried, or allowed to rebut the allegations; he sued Venezuela and his case was reviewed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which issued a unanimous ruling in his favor.
- That ruling was ignored by Venezuelan officials.During the crisis in Venezuela, he called for protests in February 2014.
- He was arrested on 18 February 2014 and charged with arson and conspiracy; murder and terrorism charges were dropped.
- Human rights groups expressed concern that the charges were politically motivated.
- His imprisonment in Ramo Verde was controversial; the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called for the release of those arrested in connection with the protests.
- Opinion polls in late 2014 showed that López had become one of the most popular politicians in Venezuela following his arrest.
- In September 2015, he was found guilty of public incitement to violence through supposed subliminal messages, being involved with criminal association, and was sentenced to 13 years and 9 months in prison.
- He was later transferred to house arrest on 8 July 2017 after being imprisoned for over three years.
- On 1 August 2017 he was taken from his home by SEBIN agents and was briefly imprisoned once again in Ramo Verde.
- Since then, López returned home and remained under house arrest from 5 August 2017 until it was reported that López had been released on 30 April 2019.
