Overview
- Foreign minister José Manuel Albares said Tuesday that Caracas released three binational detainees on Monday, adding that one will remain in Venezuela by choice, one flies to Spain today, and one is deciding.
- The government now counts eight Spaniards freed out of about fifteen who had been detained in Venezuela.
- Prime minister Pedro Sánchez said he urged interim leader Delcy Rodríguez by phone on Friday to continue freeing political prisoners and also called opposition figure Edmundo González to offer facilitation toward free elections.
- Sánchez praised former prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s role in recent releases, while the government underscores he carries no official mandate.
- Totals for overall political-prisoner releases diverge, with NGO Foro Penal registering 56, the opposition PUD 73, and Venezuelan authorities claiming 116.