Venezuela frees 'large number' of prisoners

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Venezuelan authorities are releasing a "large number" of prisoners, some of them foreigners, five days after US forces abducted Nicolas Maduro, parliament speaker Jorge Rodriguez has said. He told reporters on Thursday the government was carrying out the immediate "release of a large number of Venezuelan and foreign nationals" in what he called a "unilateral gesture". “The Bolivarian government, together with state