Mystery Surrounds Former Marine’s Imprisonment in Venezuela

Mystery Surrounds Former Marine’s Imprisonment in Venezuela
Matthew Heath is seen at his mother's home in Knoxville, Tenn. Courtesy of the Heath family via AP
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MEDELLIN, Colombia—“Don’t WORRY!,” reads the cryptic note scribbled on a scrap of perforated paper smuggled out of a dank, basement cellblock. “Han Solo always wins!”

The weeks-old message is all the family of Matthew Heath has to pin its hopes on since the former U.S. Marine corporal was arrested at a roadblock in Venezuela almost two months ago and accused by President Nicolás Maduro of being a terrorist and spying for Donald Trump.