additional pressure on the venezuelan government to respect his rights. but also, what this is likely to do is to galvanize his supporters. his supporters are certainly going nowhere after his arrest. in fact, right now, several tens of thousands of them are blockading the main six-lane freeway that cuts through the heart of caracas. now, so far, there have been no clashes with security forces, but certainly the evevenezuelan government is in no mood to tolerate these kind of tactics by opposition forces in a public address on sunday, venezuelan president nicolas maduro said that caracas must be a zone free of what he calls fascism, because what he accuses the opposition of doing is both drawing on help from the united states and through radical right-wing elements to stir up trouble. and certainly, talking to some of the young protesters, anti-government protesters out on the streets today, they say
karl penhaul is joining us. reporter: some protesters are being driven away to seek cover but right now houthousands of anti-government protesters are blocking the six-lane freeway that leads through the middle of caracas. they are holding that point still. we have heard from the president nicolas maduro in the last few moments and so far there s been no report of violent clashes but it s usually at night that the most violent clashes do break out. so we are on stand by for the next few hours to see if we repeat that after dark, jake. karl, do we know where lopez is now and what will happen to