Vacationing U.S. citizen detained for months in Venezuela has Georgia ties

Vacationing U.S. citizen detained for months in Venezuela has Georgia ties

Lucas Hunter has now spent over two months in Venezuelan custody after being detained while on vacation.

The guards wore labels with their names “Hitler” and “Demon” and covered their faces with balaclavas. Americans in the Venezuelan prison were confined in cement cells, beaten, sprayed with pepper spray and subjected to what a prisoner called “psychological torture.” Three months after their capture, the Americans were so full of anger that they rebelled. They beat the walls of the cells and kicked the doors, they said, while other prisoners join…