CARACAS: Venezuela has granted conditional release to 31 military personnel, a top lawmaker said on Saturday, as the interim government pursues a “reconciliation” process in the wake of the January ouster of leader Nicolas Maduro, now in US custody.
Part of that reconciliation is a historic amnesty law approved earlier in February as part of a wave of reforms undertaken by interim president Delcy Rodriguez -- at Washington´s urging.
National Assembly deputy Jorge Arreaza, the lawmaker overseeing the amnesty process, posted on X that the military´s justice system had granted “alternative measures to 31 prosecuted military personnel, who are now free.”
Arreaza added the move has “the noble aim of contributing to peace and national reconciliation.”
