CGTN America
Jose Daniel Hernandez, an opposition supporter, embraces people outside of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service’s (SEBIN) headquarters after being released through a pardon from Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela August 31, 2020. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has pardoned over a hundred political opponents, including the chief of staff for opposition leader Juan Guaido.
The move is viewed as a bid to boost participation in the country’s parliamentary elections later this year.
But critics denounce the pardons as a “farce” saying, many had never committed any crimes in the first place.
CGTN’s Mary Triny Mena reports.
