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A mural of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Stock Photography.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has pardoned more than 100 people – elected politicians and collaborators of the opposition leader Juan Guaidó – in order to “promote national reconciliation.”
Among others, Guaidó’s chief of staff, Roberto Marrero, was on the list of names that Information Minister Jorge Rodríguez read on state television.
Marrero was arrested in March 2019 and later accused of being part of a “terrorist cell” that planned attacks to destabilize the Maduro government.
Guaidó himself, however, was not among the pardons, despite various charges against him.
The pardons come a day after Maduro said that before the elections to be held in December, he wants reconciliation and dialogue in the deeply divided country.
Guaidó and several other prominent opposition figures are already saying they will boycott the elections due to a lack of transparency.
