As many as 10 Americans are behind bars in Venezuela as President Nicolas Maduro prepares to be sworn in for a third term. The arrests are another complication to the Venezuela challenges that await Donald Trump when he returns to the White House in less than two weeks.
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For one, Maduro enjoys the backing of the armed forces, the traditional arbiter of disputes in Venezuela. The military has stuck by Maduro even as the U.S. and otherthat Trump previously promoted have inadvertently strengthened American adversaries such as China, Russia and Iran in the strategic energy sector.
“They’ll take them back,” he said last month when asked whether Venezuelans could be deported to a country without diplomatic relations with the U.S. “If they don’t, they’ll be met very harshly economically.” One is a national guardsman from Argentina who was arrested coming to visit his Venezuelan wife’s family. Authorities accused him of terrorism, linking him to five opposition activists who have been sheltering in the Argentine ambassador’s residence for 10 months. Other prisoners hail from Ecuador, Spain and the Czech Republic.
Before that announcement, Venezuelan officials have given the names of seven American detainees, and human rights groups identified an additional one. The State Department has declined to provide a number, citing privacy and security concerns.
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