Venezuela’s former Minister of the Interior Miguel Rodriguez Torres, once a confidant of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, 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 arrested in 2018 in the city of Caracas by the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) for planning «criminal actions» against the government of Nicolás Maduro.
As reported by journalist Vladimir Villegas in his Twitter account, Rodríguez Torres left the country shortly after his release bound 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 for all my life. I am sure that I will return to continue working, to continue fighting, to continue building, said the 59-year-old soldier, before thanking former Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
«Zapatero, for three years, fought tirelessly to achieve this success, for which I will be eternally grateful, for his gesture, his solidarity and affection,» said Rodríguez Torres in statements reproduced on social networks.
Rodríguez Torres headed from the Ministry of Interior the repression of the 2014 anti-government protests, when the security forces were accused of committing abuses such as arbitrary detentions and torture.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
