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The former Chavista Interior Minister Miguel Rodríguez Torres, who leaves Venezuela for Spain, has been released

Torres thanks ex-president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for his efforts to release him.

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The former Chavista Interior Minister Miguel Rodríguez Torres, who leaves Venezuela for Spain, has been released

Torres thanks ex-president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for his efforts to release him

MADRID, 22 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Former Venezuelan Interior Minister Miguel Rodríguez Torres, once a trusted man of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, has been released after five years in prison on charges of conspiracy against the Venezuelan government.

Torres, who also served as Chávez's intelligence chief, ended up distancing himself from the current president, Nicolás Maduro, and ended up being arrested in 2018 in the city of Caracas by the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) for planning "criminal actions" against the government. by Nicolas Maduro.

As the journalist Vladimir Villegas has made known on his Twitter account, Rodríguez Torres left the country shortly after his release for Madrid.

"I am leaving my land, with a lot of pain. I love this land where I was born and for which I have worked and fought throughout my life. I am sure that I will continue working, continue fighting, continue building," assured the military officer, 59 years old, before expressing his gratitude to the former Spanish president, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

"Zapatero, for three years, fought tirelessly until he achieved this success, for which I will be eternally grateful, for his gesture, his solidarity and affection", Rodríguez Torres has made known in statements reproduced on social networks.

Rodríguez Torres led from the Ministry of the Interior the repression of the anti-government protests in 2014, when the security forces were accused of having committed abuses such as arbitrary arrests and torture.

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