Venezuela moves to investigate alleged citizen’s disappearance in US

By Osmary Hernández Sosa, CNN en Español The Venezuelan Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into the alleged "forced disappearance" of Ricardo Jesús Prada Vásquez, a Venezuelan immigrant detained in the United States and, according to US immigration authorities, deported to El Salvador, according to a statement. The document, published Wednesday, reported that Attorney General Tarek William Saab appointed a "specialized pros…

An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Simply Disappeared’

In late January, Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a Venezuelan immigrant working in a delivery job in Detroit, picked up an order at a McDonald’s. He was heading to the address when he erroneously turned onto the Ambassador Bridge, which leads to…

Venezuela moves to investigate alleged citizen’s disappearance in US

The Venezuelan Attorney General’s Office on Thursday said it will investigate a possible case of the forced disappearance of a Venezuelan citizen in the United States. “The Public Ministry reports that it is investigating into the forced disappearance of Ricardo Prada, who was detained in late January 2025 in Michigan. “He was subsequently held at a maximum-security center in Texas,” the Attorney General’s Office said in a statement. According t…

Ricardo Prada Vásquez has already appeared and appeared in the place no one wants to be sent to. The 32-year-old Venezuelan, whom family and friends have been looking for for for days, is in the Center of the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), the Salvadoran megacarcel to which the Trump administration sent some 252 Venezuelan migrants accused of criminals. “They tell me that he also appeared in El Salvador and related to the Aragua Train,” confi…

The family of Neri Alvarado Borges, a Venezuelan who resided in Lewisville, Texas, seeks answers after his loved one was deported to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, despite his status as an asylum seeker and having no criminal record, according to information published by CBS [...] The entry Venezuelan asylum seeker in the US is deported to El Salvador was first published in Information Focus.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office reported on Wednesday that it began an investigation into the alleged disappearance of Ricardo Prada, a Venezuelan citizen detained at the end of January in Michigan, in the United States. According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, he was subsequently transferred to a maximum security detention center in Texas. Since the end of March, no information has been available about his whereabouts. Attorney General Tarek…