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Political Prisoners and Torture in Venezuela: The Experience of an HKS Alumnus and Venezuelan Political Prisoner
November 28, 2016 | 5:10 pm – 6:10 pm
Speakers: Francisco Marquez, MPP’12 and political prisoner; Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Francisco Marquez Lara is a Venezuelan lawyer and polítical activist with the Voluntad Popular party. He was held as a political prisoner in Venezuela for four months. Throughout this time he was detained in four facilities under three organizations. This is the story of what he lived through and witnessed.
Before his imprisonment, Marquez was Chief of Staff for the Mayor of El Hatillo in Caracas. He obtained his law degree at Catholic University Andres Bello and his Master in Public Policy degree at Harvard Kennedy School.
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