LOS ANGELES—Eyvin Hernandez, a Los Angeles County public defender who had been imprisoned in Venezuela since March 2022, is back in the United States Dec. 21 as part of a sweeping prisoner exchange announced by the White House.
“All you think about when you’re in prison is how you didn’t appreciate being free while you were free,” Mr. Hernandez told an interviewer Wednesday night, minutes after he and five other freed Americans landed at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas.
