The opposition delegation that is dialoguing with the interim regime of Venezuela, committed this Thursday to promoting the release of still detained political prisoners, following complaints from organizations about delays in the amnesty process.
As AFP reported, the first round of negotiations, which ended this Wednesday, was led by the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, and Dinorah Figuera, president of the opposition bench that won the majority in the legislative body in 2015.
It was precisely the former deputy who committed this Thursday on social media to work to achieve more releases of political prisoners.
This came after, one day after concluding the first round of contacts with the government of the acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, Figuera met in Caracas with relatives of political prisoners, as reported by EFE.
“In a meeting held with relatives of political prisoners and persecuted individuals, we assumed the commitment and it is our purpose to work so that in the coming days releases will begin to take place”, she indicated in a message published on X.
In the same way, the opposition leader thanked the support of these relatives and a group of former Venezuelan political prisoners for the negotiation process.
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“We receive this support with full awareness of the significance it has for the restoration of democracy to raise the flag of freedom and develop an agenda to achieve full political guarantees and civil rights,” she pointed out.
During the six days of talks, the parties agreed to move forward towards a judicial reform, renewing all the judges that make up the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), and joining efforts to recover assets from Venezuela’s gold reserves frozen in the Bank of England, to help the victims of the double earthquake of last June 24.
A consensus reached seven months after the capture of Nicolás Maduro in a U.S. military intervention and with Rodríguez taking charge of the country’s interim administration under Washington’s supervision.
Thus, the leader was forced in January to promote an amnesty law to benefit hundreds of detainees for political reasons. But despite several releases, there are still 382 political prisoners, according to the non-governmental organization Foro Penal.
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