As Venezuelan detainee Diógenes Angulo left a prison in San Francisco de Yare after a year and five months behind bars, his family appeared to be in shock. He was detained two days before the 2024 presidential election after he posted a video of an opposition demonstration in Barinas,

President Donald Trump has said that the US now has de facto control of Venezuela, as it enforces a naval blockade of the South American nation’s vital oil exports.