LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday approved two related motions that call on President Joe Biden and the State Department to take any actions necessary to secure the freedom of a Southland public defender imprisoned in Venezuela.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A Los Angeles attorney detained in Venezuela is pleading for help from the Biden administration ...

Five months after Los Angeles attorney Eyvin Hernandez, 44, took a two-week vacation, he's yet to come home. Now, his family and friends are begging the Biden administration to help after they say he was wrongfully imprisoned by Venezuelan officials near ...

Congressional lawmakers are calling for the return of a Los Angeles-based attorney who has been held in Venezuela for more than a year after making a wrong turn into the country and is now accused of being a spy. Eyvin Hernandez, who has worked with the ...

President Trump’s pardon of former Honduran leader and convicted trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández sparked outrage and intensified criticism across Latin America.

WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — The State Department determined in recent days that Eyvin Hernandez, a 44-year-old deputy public defender from Los Angeles, is being wrongfully detained in Venezuela, U.S. officials and friends of the Hernandez family ...

President Trump said airlines should consider the space above and around Venezuela to be closed amid threats of aggressive steps against the Maduro government.

CLEVELAND — Three Americans, including a lawyer from Los Angeles, were quietly jailed in Venezuela earlier this year after allegedly trying to enter the country illegally and now face long prison sentences in the politically turbulent nation. Two of the ...