Alberto Trentini Calls Home: "I Hope to Return to Italy Soon"

Alberto Trentini, the Italian humanitarian operator imprisoned in Venezuela for 181 days, telephoned home, where he hopes to return soon. This has been confirmed by sources of Palazzo Chigi, with...

Since he was detained in Venezuela, he had been unable to communicate with anyone.

Alberto Trentini is alive. He eats and takes his medicines. For the first time in 181 days of imprisonment in Venezuela, he was able to phone home and told the family his condition. "I hope to return soon," he said. Trentini's interview was not programmed but was somehow awaited by the government. At Republic, sources of Palazzo Chigi in fact relate the possibility of contacting family members with the diplomatic action of the executive towards …

The first call after 181 days of imprisonment is the result of the work of diplomatic mediation between the Italian government and that of Maduro

The Venezuelan non-governmental organization Foro Penal said on Friday that “some foreign prisoners” who are being held in a prison near Caracas have been able to talk to their families on the phone after “several months in solitary confinement and without knowing their whereabouts.” The president of the NGO, lawyer Alfredo Romero, said in X that this week “some foreign prisoners in Rodeo 1 (prison center), located in Miranda State (north), have…

Political prisoner Alberto Trentini, an Italian cooperative arrested by Maduro’s regime for more than six months for reasons not yet clarified, was able to speak for the first time on the phone with his family, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said this Friday. “On behalf of the Italian Government, I express my relief for Alberto Trentini’s first phone call to his family after 181 days of detention in Venezuelan prisons,” said Italian Dep…