Venezuela said on Thursday it would release “a significant number” of prisoners in a move its government framed as a gesture “to seek peace.”
National Assembly president Jorge Rodríguez said the releases were “taking place immediately” and would include both Venezuelans and foreign nationals, though he did not specify how many or exactly who would be released. The move, he said in a message broadcast on the public television channel TeleSur, was meant to contribute to “national unity.”
It comes just days after the US captured Venezuela’s longtime authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro in a stunning military raid and took him to New York to face drug trafficking charges.
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