According to the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, the liberation of the 10 Americans was possible “thanks to the leadership” of the US president, Donald Trump, but Washington also thanked the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele
The United States Government said Wednesday, July 23 that “many” of the Americans detained in Venezuela and released on the 18th of this month, after an agreement between the Venezuelan authorities and the Donald Trump administration denounced having been submitted to torture and other hard conditions; However, they have not specified what they were.
“The United States had the opportunity to achieve the release of all Americans detained in Venezuela, many of whom denounced to have undergone torture and other hard conditions,” said a spokesman for the US State Department.
The exchange took place on July 18. Nicolás Maduro received 252 Venezuelans arrested since March in El Salvador and agreed to free a group of political prisoners and the ten Americans.
According to the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, this was possible “thanks to the leadership” of the US president, Donald Trump, but Washington also thanked the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, for, said, “help ensure an agreement for the liberation” of the Americans arrested, “in addition to the liberation of Venezuelan political prisoners.”
Among the released Americans is Dahud Hanid Ortiz, Exmarine condemned for killing three people in Madrid in 2016.
The exmarine, to whom Criminal Forum does not consider a political imprisonment, traveled on June 22, 2016 from Germany, where he lived, Madrid with the intention of killing lawyer Víctor Joel Salas by believing that he had a relationship with his wife.
The lawyer was not in his office and Hanid Ortiz killed the three people he found there; two Cuban nationality workers and an Ecuadorian client. He fled and was arrested in 2018 in Venezuela, his country of origin, where he was sentenced in 2024 to 30 years in prison, the maximum provided for in local legislation.
The State Department did not want to rule on the different released Americans: “For privacy reasons, I will not go into details of any specific case,” concluded the spokesman.
With EFE information
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