Manuel Tique, the Colombian Who Lived Months in a Prison in Venezuela: “I Don’t Sleep Thinking About My Compatriots Who Are Still Locked Up”

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Manuel Tique learned a week after the rest of the world of the fall of Nicolás Maduro. The news that he had taken over the covers of hundreds of media on January 3 came to the ears of this 33-year-old Colombian through the hole he used as a latrine in his tiny cell. He barely had contact with the outside world: 16 months ago he had been arrested by the Venezuelan regime and was locked in the maximum security prison El Rodeo I, on the outskirts o…