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Image released by the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela, with Ortiz's face circled in white.
Dahud Hanid Ortiz

US defends repatriation of triple murderer who slipped into the prisoner exchange with Venezuela: ‘Many reported being subjected to torture’

Dahud Hanid Ortiz was serving 30 years in a Venezuelan prison for a triple homicide he committed in Spain in 2016. But the State Department applauds that there are no more Americans ‘wrongfully detained’ in the Latin American country