Posted on 05/17/2018 1:20:48 PM PDT by detective
An American hostage imprisoned by the Maduro regime in Venezuela begged for assistance in a note as police cracked down on political prisoners demanding an end to their repression on Wednesday.
“Helicoide the prison where I am at has fallen [sic] the guards are here and people.are trying to break in my room and kill me [sic],” Joshua Holt wrote on his Facebook page.
“Help me please united states, how long do I have to suffer unjustly in this place?” he continued. “They want to kill me and paint the walls with my blood. I am a political prisoner, and they won’t let me free. They won’t give me a true trial.”
Holt, a former Mormon missionary from Utah, was arrested in Venezuela in June 2016 along with his Venezuelan wife Thamara Caleño after officials claimed to have uncovered a small weapons arsenal in their apartment. They remain incarcerated despite eyewitnesses confirming they saw police enter the apartment to place the weapons there beforehand.
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Hopefully, President Trump will be able to secure his release.
What is Romney's position on this?
Missionary, of course!
There’s plenty of places here in the US that could benefit from missionary work. While I sincerely hope he’s freed there’s a lesson in here.
Don’t travel to socialist hell holes.
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Do they want a ransom to release him?
LOL!
Maybe we should send Sean Penn, or Danny Glover.
That would be a fine trade. Venezuela can have them both.
On his back in a hammock with a lemonade in his hand.
Works for me. Can we pack a few more in?
Pelosi, Maxine Waters....(oh we’ll be here all day)
Remember Charles Manson’s disciples wrote words in blood on the walls using the victims’ blood. More savagery.
I agree.
Sorry to be religiously intolerant but Mormons and Christians should not send missionaries to be captured, tortured and killed.
I am sorry a few savages may be missed but it has never been worth it to sacrifice good people.
I recall Belgian a missionary group of Catholic nuns being hooked up to truck batteries and tortured with electric shocks by blacks in the Congo. Sorry, but I can’t agree the spread of religion is worth that. The Africans there still live on dirt floor huts in 2018 but those nuns suffered.
Hollywood Liberals are sooooo smart and wise.
They do such fine work.
I guess I'd like to know more before I would think he deserves the support of our government. I just don't believe that Venezuela, especially with all of its other problems, has a need to imprison relatively nameless Americans who visit there. (Sounds VERY harsh! The guy has an internet connection? What kind of imprisonment is that?)
ML/NJ
Any American stupid enough to go to Venezuela deserves what he gets. Same with Islamic countries, North Korea and several African nations. They have the freedom to go but if ttheyre stupid enough to go it is their own responsibility.
Send in the Seals. Get him out.
Facebook and WiFi?
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