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Venezuela: ‘Fascist’ thugs blamed for leftwinger’s murder
President Maduro slams paramilitary attack on army barracks

VENEZUELA’S ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) condemned “fascist” opposition thugs on Thursday for the abduction, torture and murder of one of its members.

The latest killing of a government supporter occurred in the city of Barquisimeto, west of the capital Caracas.

Pedro Josue Carrillo, from the Santa Rosa district in the east of the city, was abducted on Tuesday by masked men who bundled him into the back of a car.

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