Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez will be arraigned at a military base outside of Caracas, instead of in a court in the capital.  Authorities claim this is to protect him, because of death threats.  And this is amid word that a fifth person has died in violence.

Lopez’s lawyer Juan Carlos Gutierrez says he has not been able to meet his client since Lopez was arrested on charges of instigated violence Tuesday, speaking from a statue of Latin American independence hero Jose Marti and giving the power salute – affecting the trappings of the Left he is trying to undermine. 

His supporters are all fired up, massing in front of the Palace of Justice, and burning tyres in their upscale Chacao neighborhood where the 42-year old conservative politician was once Mayor.  But there’s no indication that Lopez, educated at elite American schools, is earning any new supporters outside of the wealthiest Caracas neighborhoods – especially among the poor.

“Protests still seem to be supported by opposition voters, and do not seem to have spread beyond this group,” wrote Daniel Kerner, an analyst at the Eurasia Group, in a report.  “The most likely outcome is that the situation will get worse but that Maduro will be able to contain it and protests will probably die down in a few weeks.”

Meanwhile, a fifth person has been killed in anti-government violence.  22-year old Genesis Carmona was struck in the head by a bullet in the central city of Valencia.  She died later in a clinic.  Three people were shot dead in Caracas after an opposition rally a week ago, and a fourth person died after being run over by a car during a demonstration in the coastal town of Carupano.