PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Jan.2026, Words: 410) — During the 2026 judicial opening ceremony, Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodríguez announced the national executive decided to “promote a general amnesty law that covers the entire period of political violence from 1999 to the present.”
“May this law serve to heal the wounds left by political confrontation fueled by violence and extremism, may it serve to reestablish justice in our country, and may it serve to restore coexistence among Venezuelans,” Rodríguez declared on 30 Jan. 2026, from the main auditorium of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ).
