{"id":160664,"date":"2024-09-05T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=160664"},"modified":"2024-09-04T18:25:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T22:25:15","slug":"navy-sailor-detained-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=160664","title":{"rendered":"Navy Sailor detained in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Soldiers-dancing-in-a-nightclub-in-Columbia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-141027\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Soldiers-dancing-in-a-nightclub-in-Columbia-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Soldiers-dancing-in-a-nightclub-in-Columbia-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Soldiers-dancing-in-a-nightclub-in-Columbia-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Soldiers-dancing-in-a-nightclub-in-Columbia-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Soldiers-dancing-in-a-nightclub-in-Columbia-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Soldiers-dancing-in-a-nightclub-in-Columbia.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Venezuelan law enforcement detained a U.S. Navy Sailor. According to the Pentagon, the Sailor was not authorized to be in Venezuela, neither through leave nor through official travel. This Sailor apparently traveled to Venezuela for personal purposes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From Associated Press:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; A U.S. Navy sailor has been detained in Venezuela after traveling there unauthorized on personal business, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The enlisted sailor was detained last week by Venezuelan law enforcement, two defense officials said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the officials said the sailor has been in Venezuelan custody since on or about Aug. 30.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. Navy is looking into this and working closely with the State Department,&#8221; the Pentagon said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details not made public, referred to the State Department for an update on the sailors&#8217; status.<\/p>\n<p>One of the officials said the service member was neither on official travel nor did they have authorized leave to visit Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday spokesman Matt Miller said the State Department was monitoring the situation, but did not comment further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>copp, T. (2024, September 5). A US Navy sailor is detained in Venezuela, Pentagon says. <em>Associated Press<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/navy-sailor-venezuela-detained-military-pentagon-97bd40292a707f7ab4bd222b2b9e893c\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan law enforcement detained a U.S. Navy Sailor. According to the Pentagon, the Sailor was not &hellip; <a title=\"Navy Sailor detained in Venezuela\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=160664\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy Sailor detained in Venezuela<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[703,387,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-navy","category-international-affairs","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}