Opinion: U.S. diplomats have left Venezuela. Please don’t forget my son.
The U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 12. It is now closed. By Barbara Leininger March 21 at 5:24 PM Barbara Leininger is the mother of Todd Michael Leininger. She lives in Indiana.
Todd was detained in 2014 in the middle of widespread anti-government protests. The authorities took Todd, his wife and her sister into custody in the midst of the turmoil on the streets after an altercation at a neighbor’s house. The government charged all three with terrorism and arms trafficking. A San Cristóbal court ultimately dismissed the baseless terrorism-related charges and instead charged Todd with attempted homicide and concealment of a firearm.
The ministry has provided no official justification to the U.S. Embassy or Todd’s lawyer. Prison officials have told our lawyer that he will never be released because he is an American. Recently, American reporter Cody Weddle shared his personal story of being detained in Venezuela for 12 hours while authorities investigated him for treason, extraction of military equipment and espionage. In Weddle’s words, “it was clear that authorities are mostly improvising.” If Weddle experienced such instability in only 12 hours, I can only imagine what Todd has faced over the past five years.
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