British media: The United States said that Venezuela arrested three Americans suspected illegal entry Americans

According to Reuters on the 13th, the US State Department and related sources said that Venezuela arrested three American citizens earlier this year. They were facing illegal entry allegations and are still detained.

One of the sources said that the Venezuela government tried to deal with the arrest of the three Americans in a low -key manner and continued to conduct preliminary diplomatic contact with the Bayeon government in the United States.

In this regard, a spokesman for the US State Department said: "We can confirm that in January and March this year, US citizens were arrested in Venezuela ... Out of privacy, we will not make further comments."

According to sources, the U.S. government believes that these people were arrested in different events and were "detention".

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According to the Associated Press, the 44 -year -old Los Angeles lawyer Eyvin Hernandez and 52 -year -old Texas computer programmer Jerrel Kenemore was in March in March The Americans were arrested and the third unknown Americans were arrested in January.

Sources said they were accused of illegally entry Venezuela and other unprepared crimes. The U.S. investigation refused to confirm their names.

Reuters said it is unclear why they went to Venezuela. On May 19th, the US State Department urged U.S. citizens to go to Venezuela for security reasons. The reason is that the country has the risk of detaining U.S. citizens in the so -called "without legitimate procedures".

It is reported that in addition to these three people, at least eight American citizens are still detained in Venezuela. ) Several managers of oil companies.

Prior to the arrest of March, the US official delegation visited Venezuela for the first time over the years. After that meeting, the committee released two American citizens. Subsequently, in June, the second American delegation visited Venezuela, but failed to let the commission release any detained U.S. citizen.

The relationship between Venezuela and the United States for the Organization of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC, OPEC) is hostile for many years. As the Russian conflict continues and affects global oil supply, it is affected by the surge in domestic oil prices. Vulnerability.

Sources told Reuters that last month's visit to Venezuela's US delegation, including the US government's Venezuela affairs team in Colombia, James Sturi, the topic of the interview and discussion involved political affairs, but did not involve Venezuela's oil industry. The industry has been sanctioned by the United States since 2019.

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