Venezuela's attorney general said Wednesday that an amnesty envisaged for political prisoners and those who jailed them during years of political repression must also be extended to toppled leader Nicolas Maduro.
Maduro was captured by US forces in a deadly military strike on January 3 and spirited away to New York to stand trial on drug charges.
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