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US swaps Maduro ally for wrongfully detained Americans and ‘Fat Leonard’

By Mike Brest
Published December 20, 2023 7:23pm ET
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US swaps Maduro ally for wrongfully detained Americans and ‘Fat Leonard’
The Biden administration has agreed to a complex deal with Venezuela that will see several Americans wrongfully detained return to their families, according to a senior administration official. The United States secured the release of six Americans considered by the State Department to be wrongfully detained, four other Americans, and Malaysian businessman Leonard Francis, nicknamed […]

The Biden administration has agreed to a complex deal with Venezuela that will see several Americans wrongfully detained return to their families, according to a senior administration official.

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