{"id":42442,"date":"2021-11-21T12:23:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T20:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42442"},"modified":"2021-11-21T12:23:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T20:23:16","slug":"four-years-of-wrongful-detention-for-the-citgo-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42442","title":{"rendered":"Four Years of Wrongful Detention for the Citgo 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>11\/21\/2021 08:10 AM EST<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ned Price, Department Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Today marks four years since U.S. nationals Jorge Toledo, Gustavo Cardenas, Jos\u00e9 Pereira, Tomeu Vadell, Jos\u00e9 Luis Zambrano, and Alirio Zambrano traveled to Venezuela for a CITGO Petroleum business meeting and were not allowed to come home.\u00a0 After being invited to Venezuela, masked security agents detained all six men and imprisoned them on specious charges without due process or access to a fair trial.\u00a0 As a fourth Thanksgiving holiday approaches, we continue to seek their unconditional return and the release of all U.S. nationals wrongfully detained overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Blinken will continue to relentlessly pursue the release of these individuals.\u00a0 To the Venezuelan authorities who have imprisoned them, we ask that they be allowed to return to the United States to reunite with their families.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/21\/2021 08:10 AM EST &nbsp; Ned&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42443,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42442\/revisions\/42443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}