Venezuela's government has freed a former spy chief who spent nearly five years in prison for leading a movement of loyalists to the late leftist president Hugo Chavez in challenging the rule of his handpicked successor, Nicolas Maduro.
Miguel Rodriguez Torres departed his homeland Saturday to live in exile in Spain, according to someone close to Rodriguez Torres who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the release hadn't yet been announced by the Maduro government. He was accompanied by former Spanish president Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who had been working behind the scenes to secure Rodriguez Torres' freedom, according to the person.
But he ran afoul of Maduro, by questioning the socialist leader's stubborn adherence to rigid foreign exchange controls blamed for soaring inflation and a cratering currency.
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