Leopoldo Eduardo López Mendoza is a Venezuelan opposition leader. López was elected mayor of the Chacao Municipality of Caracas in the regional elections held in July 2000. He is the National Coordina
López in 2012
López with Voluntad Popular party official, Freddy Guevara in 2011
Leopoldo López and María Corina Machado, presenting La Salida. Juan Guaidó is behind.
A protest in Las Mercedes, Caracas shortly after López was arrested
On 30 April 2019, during the Venezuelan presidential crisis, a group of several dozen military personnel and civilians joined Juan Guaidó in his call for the removal of Nicolás Maduro as part of what
Leopoldo 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, in the wake of the 2019 Venezuelan uprising. As the former attempt to overthrow Maduro's government fell apart, López took refuge as a guest in the Spanish Embassy in Caracas. He fled Venezuela…
US National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks to press outside the White House on 30 April
Protests in favor of the uprising, on 1 May.