Venezuela's government has begun to release Venezuelan and foreign political prisoners, less than a week after its former head, Nicolas Maduro, was seized in a U.S. military operation.

El presidente de la Asamblea, Jorge Rodríguez, agradece las gestiones del expresidente español José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

A large number of detainees were to be released from Venezuelan prisons, the country's parliamentary speaker said Thursday in an apparent concession to Donald Trump in the wake of…