At least five Americans, including New Yorker James Luckey-Lange, are being detained in Venezuela following the Trump administration’s latest military and economic pressure campaign against Caracas, according to a new report.
At least five Americans, including a New Yorker, are being detained in Venezuela following the Trump administration’s latest military and economic pressure campaign against Caracas, according to a new report.
James Luckey-Lange, 28, of Staten Island, is among the recently US citizens imprisoned in Venezuela, with the New Yorker demmed to be wrongfully detained, officials told the New York Times.
Luckey-Lange, whose family reported him missing earlier this month, disappeared soon after entering Venezuela’s border as part of a long trip across Latin America that was inspried by the death of his mother, musician Diane Luckey.
“He has been traveling around, figuring out what to do with his life,” Eva Aridjis Fuentes, a filmmaker who worked with Luckey-Lange on a documentary about his mother, told the Times.
