Members of the National Guard use their shields behind a fire during clashes with anti-government demonstrators in Caracas, on July 26, 2017. Venezuelans blocked off deserted streets Wednesday as a 48-hour opposition-led general strike aimed at thwarting embattled President Nicolas Maduro's controversial plans to rewrite the country's constitution got underway. /
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Members of the National Guard use their shields behind a fire during clashes with anti-government demonstrators in Caracas, on July 26, 2017. Venezuelans blocked off deserted streets Wednesday as a 48-hour opposition-led general strike aimed at thwarting embattled President Nicolas Maduro's controversial plans to rewrite the country's constitution got underway. /
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TOPSHOT - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a national flag during the closing of the campaign to elect a Constituent Assembly that would rewrite the constitution, in Caracas on July 27, 2017 on the second day of a 48-hour general strike called by the opposition. Venezuela's opposition called for a nationwide protest on Friday in outright defiance of a new government ban on demonstrations ahead of a controversial weekend election. "The regime declared we can't demonstrate... We will respond with the TAKING OF VENEZUELA tomorrow," the opposition coalition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable, said Thursday on its Twitter account. / AFP PHOTO / Federico PARRA (Photo credit should read FEDERICO PARRA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Caracas, Venezuela CNN  — 

Venezuelan authorities took opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma from their homes early Tuesday.

Lopez apparently had a feeling they were going to move to take him back into custody. He recorded a video message weeks ago, which his wife released after he was taken away. In it he tells his supporters to keep up their struggle.

The latest move against the opposition came as President Nicolas Maduro dealt with international condemnations and sanctions over Sunday’s vote to elect a new body of lawmakers.