{"id":3540,"date":"2025-10-04T21:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/venezuela-prisoners-hostages\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T21:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:51:15","slug":"venezuela-prisoners-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/fr\/venezuela-prisoners-hostages\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela’s international prisoners being used as hostages : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Activists and relatives of prisoners release balloons calling for the freedom of political prisoners, in Caracas, Venezuela, April 14.\n \n \n Ariana Cubillos\/AP\n \n <\/b>\n cacher la l\u00e9gende<\/b><\/b>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n\n toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n Ariana Cubillos\/AP\n \n <\/span>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

BOGOT\u00c1, Colombia \u2014 Manuel Alejandro Tique used to live in a peaceful condo on the outskirts of Bogot\u00e1, from where he would bike to his office in the center of the city several times a week. Now, he’s in a maximum security prison in Venezuela, where inmates are rarely allowed to communicate with the outside world.<\/p>

“We are constantly worried about how he’s doing,” says his sister Diana Tique, who lives in the three-bedroom apartment that has been the family’s home for years.<\/p>

She says that during the first months of her brother’s detention, she had trouble sleeping, adding that the “emotional toll” of having him detained without trial in a foreign prison has been immense.<\/p>