Panama offers safe passage to Venezuela's Maduro to allow for transition

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Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino holds a press conference, in Panama City

(Reuters) - Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino told broadcaster CNN on Friday he would give Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his family political asylum to act as a "bridge" to a third country in order to allow for a political transition in Venezuela.

(Reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Writing by Brendan O'Boyle)