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Jorge Arreaza: The issue of detainees was not raised at any time at the dialogue table

Jorge Arreaza, a chavista official, stated that the issue of political prisoners was not raised during the first cycle of negotiations between the government and a sector of the opposition.

Tracked question

How many political prisoners are held, and is the trend improving? · Full question dossier →

linked by topic terms: detenidos, political prisoners

What would settle it: Foro Penal's monthly count falling for two consecutive months with named releases.

Evidence state: insufficientas of Sep 13, 2026changed from emerging → insufficientnot yet linked to a tracked event object in our corpus — no source count yet

Arreaza said the topic of detainees was not raised in the negotiation table.

He argued that releasing someone could allow them to attack the state again.

The Amnesty Law has attended 15,037 people, with positive responses for 8,743.

Of those, 314 were deprived of liberty, and 1,429 were in lengthy judicial processes.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-08-23 — not reviewed by a human editor. Archive piece: published under our earlier method. It does not carry the per-claim evidence chain — who reported it first and who is echoing whom — that our current pieces carry. The source link and the date are the original ones.