{"id":86884,"date":"2026-03-26T09:09:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86884"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:09:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:09:53","slug":"us-traveller-recounts-brutal-detention-in-venezuelas-feared-prisons-they-beat-me-chained-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/us-traveller-recounts-brutal-detention-in-venezuelas-feared-prisons-they-beat-me-chained-me-up\/","title":{"rendered":"US traveller recounts brutal detention in Venezuela\u2019s feared prisons: &#8216;They beat me, chained me up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Zny36.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=332&amp;y=113&amp;s=141&amp;d=141\" alt=\"\u2018I was never fed, I was never given water,\u2019 James Luckey writes of his time imprisoned. Photograph: Joseph Mario Giordano\/The Guardian\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were few countries James Luckey didn\u2019t see during three years backpacking across the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/americas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Americas<\/a>, from Haiti and Honduras to Bolivia and Uruguay<em>.\u00a0 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/us-traveller-recounts-brutal-detention-in-venezuela-s-feared-prisons-they-beat-me-chained-me-up\/ar-AA1Zn3Ya?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69c4e720672f4242b94cb09619514b3f&amp;cvpid=b74f74b7452e4c77b132b4967174daf1&amp;ei=119\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>There were few countries James Luckey didn\u2019t see during three years backpacking across the\u00a0Americas, from Haiti and Honduras to Bolivia and Uruguay.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/James-Luckey.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86886,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86884\/revisions\/86886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}