U.S. ‘Spy’ Held in Venezuela Is Filmmaker, Lawyer Says
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The U.S. citizen detained by Venezuela on accusations of spying is a documentary filmmaker who had accreditation from the South American country’s electoral council to observe elections this month, his lawyer said today.
Timothy Tracy was arrested at Caracas’s Simon Bolivar airport April 24 as he was leaving the country and charged yesterday with conspiracy, use of false documents and delinquent association, according to a statement by the public prosecutor’s office.