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Feb 23, 2024 · On Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, Holt, a Utah man imprisoned for nearly two years in Venezuela, sued Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, accusing the leftist leader of heading a “criminal enterprise” that kidnaps, tortures and unjustly imprisons American citizens.
- jgoodman@ap.org
- Latin America Reporter
Feb 22, 2024 · On Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, Holt, a Utah man imprisoned for nearly two years in Venezuela, sued Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, accusing the leftist leader of heading a “criminal enterprise” that kidnaps, tortures and unjustly imprisons American citizens.
Feb 22, 2024 · A Utah man imprisoned for nearly two years in Venezuela has sued President Nicolás Maduro, accusing the leftist leader of heading a “criminal enterprise” that kidnaps, tortures and unjustly ...
- Arrested Together
- Planted Evidence
- El Helicoide
- Physical Torture
As soon as the armed men took her husband away, Thamy Holt called her mother to come watch her two daughters, Marian and Nathalia, who were 4 and 7 years old. Then she got on the phone and called the U.S. Embassy to beg for help. She stayed on the phone, distraught, while she ran through the apartment complex asking her neighbors if anyone knew whe...
Back at Thamy Holt’s apartment, the couple was separated again. One group of officers took Josh Holt to El Helicoide, a spiraling, domed anomaly that dominates the Caracas skyline. Another group went inside the apartment with Thamy Holt. Her young daughters watched cartoons in their bedroom, unaware of the crazy scene in the rest of the apartment a...
Inside El Helicoide, officers of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, or the SEBIN, interrogated Josh Holt for hours. One of them played a video from Holt’s own Instagram account, showing him and a friend target shooting in Utah. “And he said, ‘Where were you practicing here in Venezuela? ... You were shooting here in Venezuela, training p...
The interrogation dragged on for hours, and eventually, officers brought Thamy Holt to her husband while they continued the questioning. “She just looked at me and said, ‘Joshua, they put a grenade and an AK-47 in our apartment and they’re saying that it’s ours,’” Holt said. Separated again, the Holts learned later they were each asked the same que...
Jul 1, 2020 · Josh Holt, a young man from Utah, learned how to survive in prison in part because of his friendship with his fellow inmates.
May 27, 2018 · Josh Holt, the American citizen jailed in Venezuela, has finally been reunited with his family, CNN reported. Before going home to Utah, though, President Trump invited him to the White House.
May 27, 2018 · WASHINGTON -- A secret backchannel led by a veteran Republican Senate staffer and a flamboyant Venezuelan official nicknamed "Dracula" broke through hostile relations between the two governments...
