Venezuela Frees Long-Held Dissidents Days After Its Interim Leader Met the US President

A slew of dissidents have been released from long-term detention in Venezuela, days after the country's interim leader met the US president.

The reported connection between the two events is timing, not a stated cause. Still, the release of people held over long terms is not a routine administrative act, and the sequence is the kind of thing that will be read as a signal whether or not it was meant as one.