{"id":5741,"date":"2026-01-31T11:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/31\/venezuela-interim-president-general-amnesty-political-crimes-1999\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:45:18","slug":"venezuela-interim-president-general-amnesty-political-crimes-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/31\/venezuela-interim-president-general-amnesty-political-crimes-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela&#8217;s Interim President Declares General Amnesty for Political Offenses Since 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela&#8217;s interim president announced the implementation of a general amnesty law for individuals convicted of political crimes since 1999. According to Rodr\u00edguez, this decision covers the entire period he referred to as the &#8220;era of political violence,&#8221; aiming to end the legal consequences of these cases.<\/p>\n<p>Rodr\u00edguez explained the move, saying, &#8220;We have decided to apply the general amnesty law that encompasses the entire political period marked by violence from 1999 to the present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This amnesty declaration comes amid years of political tensions and widespread internal disputes in Venezuela, where addressing political cases has consistently been a central issue of national debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela&#8217;s interim president announces a general amnesty for political crimes since 1999, aiming to resolve legal issues amid ongoing political tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}