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Triple Murderer Among Americans Repatriated From Venezuela in Prisoner Swap
UNITED STATES, JUL 22 – Dahud Hanid Ortiz, sentenced to 30 years for a 2016 triple homicide in Madrid, was released in a swap involving 10 Americans and 252 Venezuelans, U.S. officials said.
- The Trump administration facilitated a prisoner exchange, releasing 10 Americans from Venezuela in exchange for about 252 Venezuelans held in El Salvador.
- Dahud Hanid Ortiz, who was convicted of murdering three people in Spain in 2016, was among those released, with reports confirming his identity and conviction.
- The State Department stated that all wrongfully detained Americans in Venezuela were now free, but Ortiz's release caused public outrage due to his violent past.
- Venezuelan Justice Minister Diosdado Cabello remarked, 'We handed over some murderers for you,' highlighting the controversial nature of the exchange.
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Last Friday, the U.S. government repatriated Venezuelan-born U.S. Dahud Hanid Ortiz, author in 2016 of a triple murder in Madrid.Ortiz was one of the ten U.S. citizens or residents of Venezuela released in exchange for 252 Venezuelans who were imprisoned in a maximum security prison in El Salvador and a group of anti-Chavista opponents.Although Donald Trump promised to expel the “foreign criminals” from the United States, in this case his govern…
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