A Los Angeles attorney detained in Venezuela is pleading for help from the Biden administration. In a secretly recorded jailhouse message, he says that he feels forgotten by the U.S. as he faces charges at the hands of one of America’s top adversaries.
Henry Martinez said his brother sent him the voice message Aug. 21. A copy was also provided to the State Department, which has been weighing whether to turn Hernandez’s case over to the administration’s special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, Roger Carstens.
A State Department spokesman declined to comment on Hernadez’s case, citing privacy limitations, but said the agency continuously reviews the detentions of Americans overseas. He also noted that the U.S. government has issued an When his captors found his American passport, they told him he was in trouble and handed him over to security forces, who kept him incommunicado for weeks.
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