{"id":1668099,"date":"2022-10-01T18:04:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T22:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1668099"},"modified":"2022-10-01T18:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T22:05:01","slug":"venezuela-releases-7-jailed-americans-us-frees-2-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/venezuela-releases-7-jailed-americans-us-frees-2-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Releases 7 Jailed Americans; US Frees 2 Prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvenezuela-releases-7-jailed-americans-us-frees-2-prisoners%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1668099&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>WASHINGTON\u2014Venezuela has freed seven imprisoned Americans in exchange for the United States releasing two nephews of regime leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s wife who had been jailed for years on drug smuggling conspiracy convictions, the White House said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The swap of the Americans, including five oil executives held for nearly five years, follows months of back channel diplomacy by Washington\u2019s top hostage negotiator and other U.S. officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe it,\u201d Cristina Vadell, the daughter of Tomeu Vadell, one of the freed Americans, said when contacted by The Associated Press on Saturday. Holding back tears of joy on her 31st birthday, she said: \u201cThis is the best birthday present ever. I\u2019m just so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The transfer took place Saturday in an unspecified country between the United States and Venezuela after the men in the deal arrived from their respective locations in separate planes, the Biden administration said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese individuals will soon be reunited with their families and back in the arms of their loved ones where they belong,\u201d President Joe Biden said in a statement. \u201cToday, after years of being wrongfully detained in Venezuela, we are bringing home\u201d the seven men, whom the president cited by name. \u201cWe celebrate that seven families will be whole once more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maduro\u2019s regime said in a statement that it was releasing the American citizens as a humanitarian gesture. It praised the diplomacy that resulted in the freeing of the two \u201cunjustly imprisoned\u201d Venezuelans imprisoned in the United States and said it \u201chopes for the preservation of peace and harmony with all the nations of our region and the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those freed include five employees of Houston-based Citgo\u2014Vadell, Jose Luis Zambrano, Alirio Zambrano, Jorge Toledo, and Jose Pereira\u2014who were lured to Venezuela right before Thanksgiving in 2017 to attend a meeting at the headquarters of the company\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014Venezuela has freed seven imprisoned Americans in exchange for the United States releasing two nephews of regime leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s wife who had been jailed for years on drug smuggling conspiracy convictions, the White House said Saturday. The swap of the Americans, including five oil executives held for nearly five years, follows months of back [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}