Venezuela begins releasing political detainees to ‘consolidate peace’

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado hails move to tackle injustice' as Spain's foreign ministry confirms release of five Spanish nationals

Five days after the US seized Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela has announced it is releasing an important number" of detainees in what the congressional president characterised as a gesture to consolidate peace".

Former opposition candidate Enrique Marquez was among those released from prison, according to an opposition statement. It's all over now," Marquez said in a video taken by a local journalist who accompanied him and his wife, as well as another opposition member Biagio Pilieri, who was also released.