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Alex Saab is facing punishment for the ‘crime’ of securing food and medicines for the people of his country. FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ reports
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VENEZUELAN businessman Alex Saab is being held in detention in Cape Verde, victim of political persecution and facing extradition to the US for having brokered commercial deals that, in the face of the brutal US blockade against Venezuela, would bring food, medicines, fuel and other desperately needed items to the South American nation.
Saab, a special envoy and ambassador to the African Union for Venezuela, was on a humanitarian mission flying from Caracas to Iran to procure food and petrol for Venezuela’s CLAP food assistance programme.
He was detained on a refuelling stop in Cape Verde and has been held in custody ever since June 12 2020.
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