Venezuelan opposition figure freed: assembly member

Deputy Juan Andres Mejia declared the news on Twitter, also announcing the release of a local mayor who had spent 13 months in detention. "Today Delson Guarate and Yon Goicoechea are reunited with their families. We cannot forget the injustice and suffering they have gone through," he wrote. , a 32-year-old lawyer, was detained in August 2016 on charges of possessing explosives he allegedly planned to detonate at protests against President Nicolas Maduro. More…