Rafael Tudares was arrested after his father-in-law, Edmundo González, ran against Nicolás Maduro in the election.
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Mariana González said her husband had returned home after "380 days of unjust and arbitrary detention".
Tudares is one of more than 150 detainees who have been released since the US military seized Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, in a nighttime raid and took him to New York to stand trial on drug-trafficking charges.
An NGO lobbying for the release of Venezuelan political prisoners warns that 777 still remain behind bars.
Tension within the country remains high with Maduro's former vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez, now in power having been sworn in as the acting president.
Her interim government has received the backing of US President Donald Trump, who has praised Rodríguez for agreeing to "turn over" up to 50 million barrels of Venezuelan oil to the US.
The release of political prisoners had been among the first things the Trump administration had pushed Venezuela's interim government to do.
Just five days after the US raid, the head of Venezuela's National Assembly announced that "an important number of people" would be freed as "a gesture of peace".
However, rights groups have denounced the slow pace of the releases and the fact that the number given by officials - 400 - falls far short of what they have been able to confirm.
The NGO Foro Penal says it has so far only been able to verify the release of 151 political prisoners since 8 January, when the head of Venezuela's National Assembly announced that "an important number of people" would be freed as "a gesture of peace" following the US operation.
Foro Penal has also said that many those released have not had the charges agains
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