General amnesty law The government has denied that there are political prisoners in Venezuela, rejecting the accusations of torture and ill treatment and saying reports on human rights abuses behind bars are false and politically motivated.
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Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2026
The sobering reality, however, is that the legal challenges to the administration’s abuses have been necessary, but not sufficient to secure our freedoms.
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