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Protests are taking place in Minnesota and across the country following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this week.

NPR Serio Martinez Beltran has more.

Thousands of people in Minneapolis have taken on the streets for the fourth consecutive day

to protest President Trump's immigration crackdown in the city and in the state of Minnesota.

And they say they want to honor the life of Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE officer earlier

this week, and to send the Trump administration a message that ICE agents are not welcomed in

their state. However, the Trump administration has said it will continue its immigration crackdown

in the city. Already 2,000 federal immigration agents are in the state of Minnesota and more are

expected to come in the next few days. Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Minneapolis.

Despite officials in the U.S. and Venezuela, saying that a significant number of high-profile

political prisoners would be released from jails, so far only 18 have been freed.

President Trump says the U.S. requested the release and that Venezuelan officials were complying.

And Pierce, Kerry Kahn, has more.

Relatives and friends of political prisoners continue waiting in front of the infamous prison known as Aliqui

waiting the promised releases. The mountainous multi-level building was designed to be a shopping center,

but is known as the most feared detention facility

in the country. In announcing the release on Thursday, Venezuela's congressional leader Jorge

Rodriguez, the brother of the interim president, said the move should be considered a gesture-seeking

peace. Those release so far include members of the political party led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corrina Machado and five Spanish citizens.

Human rights groups to cry the paltry number of releases and say more than 800 political opponents remain imprisoned.

Kerry Kahn and PR News, Bogota, Colombia.

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