Two Venezuelan soldiers were given six years in prison Tuesday over the death in custody of a navy officer accused of plotting to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro, said his lawyer. Lieutenant Ascanio Tarascio and Sergeant Estiben Zarate were tried in a civil court in Caracas, where they were sentenced to six years and eight months in prison for manslaughter, Alonso Medina Roa said. Roa, who represented the late naval officer Rafael Acosta, was disappointed that the judge had not kept the main charge of torture, which carries a sentence of 15 to 25 years in prison for state agents, according to the criminal code.
