Americans detained in Venezuela freed and returning home
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It was after midnight in Malaysia when Secretary of State Marco Rubio dialed into a call between President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. The topic was Ukraine and Rubio, on his first trip to Asia as Trump’s top diplomat,
PARIS - France on Monday welcomed the release of Lucas Hunter, a Franco-American national, who has been detained in Venezuela since January, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday. Read more at straitstimes.
While Rubio sought to broker a swap, Grenell was quietly pursuing his own deal. Instead of focusing on a direct exchange of prisoners, he offered Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro a potential economic lifeline: allowing Chevron to keep its oil operations in Venezuela if the regime released American detainees.