Venezuela’s top lawmaker says prisoners, including foreigners, to be freed

Venezuela’s top lawmaker ‍Jorge Rodriguez said on ‍Thursday that a significant number of both foreign and Venezuelan prisoners ⁠will be freed in the coming hours.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The liberations, a repeated demand of the country’s opposition, are a ‍gesture of peace, Rodriguez said, ‍adding the action ‍was ⁠unilateral ‌and not agreed with ‍any other party.“The Bolivarian ⁠government, together with state institutions, has ‌decided to release a significant number of Venezuelan and foreign ‍individuals, and these release processes are taking place as of this very ‌moment,” Rodriguez ‍added. Read more:US House Speaker Johnson backs elections in Venezuela, defends operation