Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado reported that her close ally, Juan Pablo Guanipa, was kidnapped just hours after being released from prison. She stated that heavily armed men in plain clothes violently abducted him from a neighborhood in Caracas. Guanipa, a former governor, had been freed on Sunday alongside other opposition figures following lengthy detentions that were widely seen as politically motivated. His son and a prisoners' rights group confirmed the kidnapping, demanding his immediate release and proof that he is still alive.