Jailed US citizen in Venezuela freed after two years. End is near for Chavismo?
American jailed in Venezuela for 2 years to return home to US, officials say
Good Morning America MERIDITH MCGRAW and MORGAN WINSOR
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/american-jailed-venezuela-2-years-return-home-us-143603581--abc-news-topstories.html
American Joshua Holt, who has been
jailed in Venezuela without a trial for two years, has been released, officials said today.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who has advocated for Holt's release, said he's "honored" to be able to finally reunite the Utah native with his family.
"Over the past two years I've worked with two presidential administrations, countless diplomatic contacts, ambassadors from all over the world, a network of contacts in Venezuela, and President Maduro himself, and I could not be more honored to be able to reunited Josh with his sweet, long suffering family in Riverton," Hatch said in a statement Saturday morning.
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Naturally, the Orangutan-in-Chief takes credit for this. Why not? To listen to him, the sun comes up in the east due to his awesomeness.
The good news is that Maduro is getting desperate. The wheels must truly be coming of the Chavismo wagon when a pawn such as Holt is released... it appears to me that this isn't a so subtle gesture on the part of Chavistas within Venezuela government as an olive branch after The Donald started slapping new economic sanctions on Maduro and his ilk after the fraud election.