Antonio Ledezma, a top opposition figure who led protests against President Nicolás Maduro’s government, fled house arrest in Caracas on Friday and crossed the border into neighboring Colombia, officials said. Mr. Ledezma said he planned to coordinate opposition to Mr. Maduro’s beleagured government from abroad, saying it was “killing Venezuela with hunger.” “We can’t lose hope,” Mr. Ledezma told Colombia’s Caracol Radio on Friday. “That’s the great virtue of the Venezuelan people.” Mr. Ledezma, a former mayor of greater Caracas once seen as a presidential candidate, spent more than 1,000 days in jail and under house arrest for allegedly instigating political violence and plotting against the government. He was never tried, and he always denied the charges, saying the accusations […]