Venezuela's interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, stated on 26 January that 808 detainees, presumably including regime opponents, had been freed since December 2025 as a gesture of national reconciliation, amid continued skepticism over how many, and which detainees, were really being released. The regime vowed on 8 January to free a considerable number, though the process has been laborious and even conditional. The country's socialist regime, working in an interim capacity, has insisted opponents were not being released under pressure from the United States, but on the orders of the last president, Nicolás Maduro, given in December before his arrest this month in a surprise U.S. operation. The rights group Foro Penal believed the authorities had freed just 266 politicial detainees since January 8, according to CNN. Cabello said in Caracas that UN officials could check on the releases, as "we have nothing to hide," CNN reported. Separately, U.S. President Donald J. Trump wrote online on 26 January that he was pleased Venezuela was "releasing its Political Prisoners at a rapid rate, which rate will be increasing over the coming short period of time," without giving details. One hundred or 104 dissidents were reportedly freed on 25 January.
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