 Mohammed was buried in an alley between houses because it was too dangerous to take the corpse to a mortuary or a graveyard. The BBC's Fergal Keane reporting. With less than two weeks to go before presidential elections in Venezuela, more than 70 people linked to the opposition have been arrested. The authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, has responded with force to big demonstrations in favour of the opposition, whose leader has been barred from standing in the election by the president.