Caracas releases 10 Americans as Venezuelans freed from El Salvador jail

Valletta · Jul 18, 2025

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, thanked Trump and the Salvadorian president, Nayib Bukele, for securing the agreement.
“Ten Americans who were detained in Venezuela are on their way to freedom,” Rubio tweeted.

Caracas releases 10 Americans as Venezuelans freed from El Salvador jail

Scores of Venezuelans deported by US to El Salvador repatriated as Marco Rubio hails return of Americans

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Those ten Americans are fortunate.

essentialsaltes · Thursday at 3:46 PM

Fortunate? This guy especially. He got 29 years knocked off his sentence.

Perpetrator of triple homicide in Madrid included in group of political prisoners repatriated by US from Venezuela

Dahud Hanid Ortiz landed Friday in Texas from Caracas, where he was sentenced to 30 years for a crime committed in the Spanish capital in 2016

The United States has welcomed the release and surrender by the Venezuelan Chavista regime of a group of 10 Americans who landed last Friday in Texas, among them a triple murderer, Dahud Hanid Ortiz. The identity of this freed man has been confirmed to EL PAÍS through a source close to the Spanish secret services and another from the Venezuelan NGO Foro Penal, which is dedicated to the defense of political prisoners. This organization, a reference in the field of human rights in Venezuela, warned that among those being released was one who was not a political prisoner. This Tuesday, Foro Penal confirmed to this newspaper that it was referring to Ortiz.

Images published in the U.S. media show him last Friday, waving to the camera as he and the rest of the group left the Joint Base San Antonio military installation in Texas.

The triple homicide perpetrated by Ortiz took place in 2016 in a law office in Usera, a working-class district in the south of the Spanish capital. None of the three victims were who he was actually going after that day. His target was Víctor Salas, a lawyer who was in a relationship with his ex-wife who he had threatened to kill. That day, however, he murdered two female employees of the office and a client whom he mistook for Salas.

Nithavela · Friday at 4:02 AM

They are not sending you your best.

wing2000 · Friday at 7:41 AM

essentialsaltes said:
Fortunate? This guy especially. He got 29 years knocked off his sentence.
Perpetrator of triple homicide in Madrid included in group of political prisoners repatriated by US from Venezuela
Dahud Hanid Ortiz landed Friday in Texas from Caracas, where he was sentenced to 30 years for a crime committed in the Spanish capital in 2016
The United States has welcomed the release and surrender by the Venezuelan Chavista regime of a group of 10 Americans who landed last Friday in Texas, among them a triple murderer, Dahud Hanid Ortiz. The identity of this freed man has been confirmed to EL PAÍS through a source close to the Spanish secret services and another from the Venezuelan NGO Foro Penal, which is dedicated to the defense of political prisoners. This organization, a reference in the field of human rights in Venezuela, warned that among those being released was one who was not a political prisoner. This Tuesday, Foro Penal confirmed to this newspaper that it was referring to Ortiz.

Images published in the U.S. media show him last Friday, waving to the camera as he and the rest of the group left the Joint Base San Antonio military installation in Texas.

The triple homicide perpetrated by Ortiz took place in 2016 in a law office in Usera, a working-class district in the south of the Spanish capital. None of the three victims were who he was actually going after that day. His target was Víctor Salas, a lawyer who was in a relationship with his ex-wife who he had threatened to kill. That day, however, he murdered two female employees of the office and a client whom he mistook for Salas.

Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela’s interior minister, said Wednesday night on his weekly broadcast that the Venezuelan government had warned U.S. officials at the airport that they were “taking away a convicted murderer.”

“The United States defended their murderer and asked for him to be included,” Cabello alleged.

An unamed source indicated Cabello is not in detention following his arrival on US soil.
The US government has been mum on his wherabouts....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/24/trump-prisoner-swap-dahud-hanid-ortz-venezuela/

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Caracas releases 10 Americans as Venezuelans freed from El Salvador jail

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