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The Times of Israel

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Writer: Frank Bajak

April 26, 2013
8:04 am

This undated family photo released on Thursday shows Timothy Tracy inside a vehicle in Venezuela (photo credit: AP/Courtesy of family)

Venezuela to charge US filmmaker as ‘terrorist’

Authorities nab Timothy Tracy, accused of fomenting post-election violence, on his way out of the country

By Frank Bajak and Michael Weissenstein

April 14, 2013
9:58 am

Defaced campaign signs of ruling party presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro cover a wall in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 12 (photo credit: AP/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelans to elect new president following Chavez’s death

Voters have a choice between continuity with longtime Chavista Nicolas Maduro and a fresh start with Henrique Capriles

By ALEXANDRA OLSON and Frank Bajak

December 12, 2012
5:32 pm

New York businessman Jacob Ostreicher, right, consults with attorney Abel Montano at a courthouse in Bolivia, where he's being held without charges. (photo credit: AP)

After 28th hearing, Orthodox man jailed in Bolivia calls case a joke

At a proceeding attended by actor Sean Penn, judges refuse to free man seen as victim of extortion conspiracy

By Carlos Valdez and Frank Bajak

December 11, 2012
8:50 pm

New York businessman Jacob Ostreicher, right, consults with attorney Abel Montano at a courthouse in Bolivia, where he's being held without charges. (photo credit: AP)

With Sean Penn’s help, US Jew jailed in Bolivia may be released

A growing extortion scandal suggests a conspiracy to confine Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox agriculture investor from New York

By Carlos Valdez and Frank Bajak

April 8, 2012
2:55 pm

Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox investor from Brooklyn, has been freed from prison in Bolivia but will remain under house arrest after paying $14,000 as bail. (AP/File)

US Orthodox Jew sits 10 months in Bolivian jail, uncharged

Prosecutors have presented no evidence that the New York businessman was involved in laundering drug money. Jacob Ostreicher plans to begin a hunger strike at the end of Passover

By Frank Bajak and Paola Flores