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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

American convicted of triple murder in Spain now free in US after Venezuela prisoner swap

Donald Trump’s administration hailed a prisoner exchange with Venezuela as a diplomatic success that brought home 10 Americans who were “wrongfully detained" there.

The men there were “hostages,” according to a statement from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee shared by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Those Americans are “now free and back in our homeland,” Rubio said.

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