The Ministry of Foreign Affairs encourages the efforts made by two Americans to travel to Venezuela after it revealed on Tuesday that the country is fairly imprisoned more Americans more than any other country.
“There are more American citizens detained in prisons in Venezuela more than any other country,” said Adam Bouhler, the President of the Trump Administration for the hostage.
“These are not people who committed anything wrong.” “Their only issue is that they are Americans. Venezuela takes more American than any other country for this only reason.”
While the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not reveal exactly the number of American citizens behind bars in Venezuela, at least eight Americans are held in the country.
Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro speaks to supporters celebrating the results of the parliamentary and regional elections in the Bolivar Square in Karacas, on May 25, 2025.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs classified Venezuela according to the harshest travel consultant, “Level 4: Do not travel”, since February 2019. But on Tuesday, the American embassies in Colombia, Chanda, Brazil, Aruba, and the Foreign Ministry Affairs Unit of Venezuela prepared a warning in an attempt to reach more Americans.
“There is no safe way for Americans to travel to Venezuela,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “American citizens, double citizens, and permanent legal residents should avoid traveling to Venezuela at any cost. The journey is not worth the price of freedom.”
Americans often travel to Venezuela with their loved ones, partners, or see them. However, these loved ones face similar risks as their American contacts.
The official added: “Family members and American citizens’ partners are often detained alongside the American traveler. Visiting Venezuela endangers others.”
On March 17, 2025, the file of the file, President Donald Trump speaks to the media alongside Richard Greenil, Chairman of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees, in Washington, DC
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also warns of the United States that the country’s government in some cases has resulted in the detention of the country’s government.
This is what Lucas Hunter, a 37 -year -old American and French citizen that the Venezuelan government seized in January during a surfing trip in Colombia.
The Hunter family said he was never intended to visit Venezuela, but he was forced across the border by the country’s border guards.
Although Hunter is still in the Venezuelan reservation, the Trump administration has successfully negotiated the release of seven other Americans.
On March 6, 2025, a picture of a file, an American hosting envoy, Adam Bouhler speaks during a hostage ceremony to raise the flag in the United States at the Foreign Ministry in Washington, DC
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In January, the Trump Special Envoy, Richard Greenil, made a high -level trip to Venezuela, where he met the country’s authoritarian president, Nicholas Maduro.
At the end of the visit, Greenil returned to the United States with six Americans edited.
Last week, Greenil announced in a post on X that another American was released in Venezuela, veteran Joseph Saint Claire in the US Air Force. The Trump administration said it had not made any concessions to the Maduro regime in exchange for the liberation of American citizens.
“It should continue. It should continue,” said Bouhler about the releases during an interview with ABC News. “Every country in the world needs to know that you cannot have a relationship with the United States if you are holding American citizens.”
