Six American citizens who were arrested in Venezuela were released and traveled to their country with Richard Grenelll, special envoy of US President Donald Trump, after a meeting with the ruler Nicolás Maduro.
Six American citizens who were arrested in Venezuela were released and traveled to their country with Richard Grenelll, special envoy of US President Donald Trump, after a meeting with the ruler Nicolás Maduro.
“We are returning home with these 6 American citizens. They have just talked to @realdonaldtrump and could not stop thanking him, ”Grenell wrote in his X account, next to a photograph in which they appear on a plane.
Trump said he was informed that the six “hostages” were heading home he already thanked Grenell and his entire team.
“Good job,” he wrote in X.
Trump administration officials had said Friday that one of Grenelll's main tasks for the visit was the release of Americans detained in the country.
Grenell did not appoint the six men, who appear in a photo with him abroad on an plane, published in X, but were dressed in celestial costumes that are used in the Venezuelan prison system.
It is not clear exactly how many Americans are arrested in Venezuela, but Venezuelan officials have talked publicly about at least nine.
Maduro's officials have accused most of them of terrorism and said that some were high -level “mercenaries.”
The Venezuelan government regularly accuses members of the opposition and foreign detainees to conspire with the United States to commit terrorism. American officials have always denied any plot.
“American hostages who are detained in Venezuela … must be released immediately,” Mauricio Claver-Carone, a special envoy from the United States for Latin America, said on Friday.
At the end of 2023, the Venezuelan government released dozens of prisoners, including 10 Americans, after months of negotiations, while the United States released a close ally of Maduro.
(With Reuters information)