Former Venezuelan student leader Lorent Saleh was freed on 12 October after spending four years locked up without trial, mainly in the national intelligence agency (Sebin) building in Caracas. Saleh’s release suggests the government led by President Nicolás Maduro is feeling the heat after the apparent suicide of opposition councillor Fernando Albán in Sebin’s headquarters days earlier. The Maduro administration said Saleh’s release was part and parcel of a ‘reconciliation plan’. It preceded an announcement by the European Union (EU), driven by Spain’s new left-wing government of Pedro Sánchez, that it was weighing up “a political process” in Venezuela. End of preview - This article contains approximately 707 words.
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