{"id":497591,"date":"2026-01-13T22:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/venezuela-begins-to-release-detained-us-citizens-state-department-confirms\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:53:17","slug":"venezuela-begins-to-release-detained-us-citizens-state-department-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/venezuela-begins-to-release-detained-us-citizens-state-department-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela begins to release detained US citizens, State Department confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. administration celebrates the announcement that several U.S. citizens who were detained in Venezuela have been released, in a process that comes days after U.S. forces captured former President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. The State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stressed that the release of the Americans represents a positive step by the interim authorities in Caracas.<\/p>\n<p>The releases are part of a broader series of releases in Venezuela, where the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodr\u00edguez, stated that hundreds of prisoners \u2014including Venezuelans and foreigners\u2014 would be released as a gesture towards peace; however, human rights organizations have questioned the official figures and the lack of transparency in the process.<\/p>\n<p>You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/iran-acusa-a-trump\/\">Iran accuses Trump of inciting violence and threatening its sovereignty in a letter to the UN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. administration celebrates the announcement that several U.S. citizens who were detained in Venezuela have been released, in a process that comes days after U.S. forces captured former President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. The State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stressed that the release of the Americans represents a positive step by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-497591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Ana Laura L\u00f3pez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.45.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}