{"id":44519,"date":"2026-01-12T02:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bbc-reports-from-outside-el-helicoide-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T02:18:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:18:51","slug":"bbc-reports-from-outside-el-helicoide-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bbc-reports-from-outside-el-helicoide-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC reports from outside &#8216;El Helicoide&#8217; prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Venezuelan government has begun releasing detainees considered political prisoners by human rights groups. The move comes after the US seized President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro during a raid on the capital. In a Truth Social post, US President Donald Trump said that the release of political prisoners was &#8220;a very important and smart gesture&#8221; from Venezuela. BBC reporter Norberto Paredes reports from outside the &#8216;El Helicoide&#8217; prison as detainees are released.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cn7jv4nm2rxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Venezuelan government has begun releasing detainees considered political prisoners by human rights groups. The move comes after the US seized President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro during a raid on the capital. In a Truth Social post, US President Donald Trump said that the release of political prisoners was &#8220;a very important and smart gesture&#8221; from Venezuela. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44521,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44519\/revisions\/44521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}