US man released from Venezuelan prison after five years

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A U.S. citizen arrested in Venezuela in 2014 on weapons trafficking and attempted murder charges his family called 'trumped-up' was released this ...

CARACAS: A U.S. citizen arrested in Venezuela in 2014 on weapons trafficking and attempted murder charges his family called"trumped-up" was released this week, his family said in a statement on Friday.

Washington withdrew all remaining diplomatic personnel last month, as Venezuela suffers an economic crisis that has led to food and medicine shortages and prompted more than 3 million people to emigrate. Maduro, a socialist, calls Guaido a U.S. puppet seeking to oust him in a coup. "This was a long and often heartbreaking journey, but I am so grateful to be reunited with my son," said his mother Barbara Leininger, who lives in Bloomington, Indiana.Neither Venezuela's Information Ministry nor its chief prosecutor's office responded to requests for comment.

"Since that time we have been pressing for his return to the United States," the official said, adding that the U.S. government was still concerned about six executives of U.S. refiner Citgo, a subsidiary of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, who have been jailed in Venezuela since 2017.

 

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