U.s. Took Convicted Murderer As Part Of Venezuela-el Salvador Prisoner Exchange

​​The U.S. State Department is not commenting connected why a man convicted of murdering 3 group successful Madrid was among nan 10 U.S. citizens released by Venezuela past week arsenic portion of a prisoner exchange.

Dahud Hanid Ortiz, a U.S. seasoned who served successful Iraq, was convicted successful absentia successful Spain of sidesplitting 2 Cuban women and an Ecuadorian man successful 2016.

Ortiz, who is simply a Venezuelan-born U.S. citizen, fled to nan South American state aft committing nan crime. Venezuela’s authorities rejected Spain’s extradition petition because its constitution does not let nan extradition of its citizens. Instead, Ortiz was tried successful Venezuela.

A State Department spokesperson wrote successful an emailed connection to NBC News that “the United States had nan opportunity to unafraid nan merchandise of each Americans detained successful Venezuela, galore of whom reported being subjected to torture and different harsh conditions. For privateness reasons, I won’t get into nan specifications of immoderate circumstantial case.”

The Venezuelan authorities past week released nan 10 Americans, on pinch Venezuelan governmental prisoners, successful speech for much than 250 Venezuelan migrants nan Trump management had sent to a notorious megaprison successful El Salvador successful March. The three-country woody progressive nan governments of Nicolas Maduro successful Venezuela, Nayib Bukele successful El Salvador and President Donald Trump.

“Every wrongfully detained American successful Venezuela is now free and backmost successful our homeland,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said successful a statement past week.

Two photos released by nan State Department connected Friday show nan 10 freed Americans, including Ortiz, holding an American flag.

Ortiz was awarded a Purple Heart and was dishonorably discharged aft making a mendacious charismatic connection and larceny, among other charges.

Ortiz was joined to a German female he met while stationed astatine nan U.S. guidelines successful Schweinfurt, according to Spanish newspaper El País. They later separated and she developed a narration pinch a lawyer successful Madrid. Ortiz is accused of showing up astatine nan rule agency and termination 3 of its employees. The lawyer pinch whom Ortiz’s woman was reportedly having a narration pinch was not astatine nan agency astatine nan time.