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Free the ‘Citgo 6’ from detention in Venezuela
« on: February 24, 2019, 08:04:35 pm »
Houston Chronicle by Alexandra Zambrano Forseth and Jessica Zambrano Feb. 23, 2019

Almost 500 days ago, our fathers were among the six Citgo Petroleum executives — five U.S. citizens and one U.S. permanent resident — captured at a business meeting in Caracas by the Venezuelan government. They have been held without trial and denied contact with the U.S. State Department, humanitarian organizations and religious groups. Food, water and vitamins sent by our families are rejected or confiscated by guards. Officials for Citgo, a Houston-based refinery that is the U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela's national oil company, PDVSA, have not met with our families.

Our fathers, all of whom have deep roots along the Gulf Coast, desperately need the Houston community’s support to be reunited with their families back home.

The Sunday before Thanksgiving 2017, our family members — company vice presidents Alirio Zambrano, José Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell, Jorge Toledo, Gustavo Cardenas and acting president and CEO José Pereira — were summoned at the behest of PDVSA to business meetings in Venezuela. During the last of these, the men were detained, forced into the political theater of anti-U.S. sentiment maintained by Nicolás Madoru , now widely considered, including by the State Department, to be Venezuela’s illegitimate president.

To this day, they remain confined to a basement beneath a military intelligence compound in Caracas, where they have endured horrific treatment for more than 14 months.

More: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Free-the-Citgo-6-from-detention-in-13638719.php?


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Re: Free the ‘Citgo 6’ from detention in Venezuela
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2019, 08:12:27 pm »
Houston Chronicle by Alexandra Zambrano Forseth and Jessica Zambrano Feb. 23, 2019

Almost 500 days ago, our fathers were among the six Citgo Petroleum executives — five U.S. citizens and one U.S. permanent resident — captured at a business meeting in Caracas by the Venezuelan government. They have been held without trial and denied contact with the U.S. State Department, humanitarian organizations and religious groups. Food, water and vitamins sent by our families are rejected or confiscated by guards. Officials for Citgo, a Houston-based refinery that is the U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela's national oil company, PDVSA, have not met with our families.

Our fathers, all of whom have deep roots along the Gulf Coast, desperately need the Houston community’s support to be reunited with their families back home.

The Sunday before Thanksgiving 2017, our family members — company vice presidents Alirio Zambrano, José Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell, Jorge Toledo, Gustavo Cardenas and acting president and CEO José Pereira — were summoned at the behest of PDVSA to business meetings in Venezuela. During the last of these, the men were detained, forced into the political theater of anti-U.S. sentiment maintained by Nicolás Madoru , now widely considered, including by the State Department, to be Venezuela’s illegitimate president.

To this day, they remain confined to a basement beneath a military intelligence compound in Caracas, where they have endured horrific treatment for more than 14 months.

More: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Free-the-Citgo-6-from-detention-in-13638719.php?

In the good ole days.... it would have been considered an act of war re: what Maduro has done.  I think we need to revisit the past and emulate those policies.
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Re: Free the ‘Citgo 6’ from detention in Venezuela
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2019, 12:53:03 am »
Xena wrote:
"In the good ole days.... it would have been considered an act of war re: what Maduro has done.  I think we need to revisit the past and emulate those policies."

Right on, Xena.
Good 'nuff reason to "send in the troops" -- which we SHOULD HAVE done a long time ago.