Venezuela's new government, under President Delcy Rodriguez, has released hundreds of political detainees. But does that mean freedom?

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Ramon Centeno spent most of his four years in a Venezuelan prison lying down. He could barely move around his cramped cell, where thin sheets of fabric hung between the bunk beds for a sliver of privacy.

There were no windows to catch a glimpse of the sun, only a dim yellow light from the corridor that crept across the concrete floor. The lightbulbs in the cell itself had long ago burned out.