{"id":247384,"date":"2022-10-18T03:05:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T03:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=247384"},"modified":"2022-10-18T03:21:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T03:21:05","slug":"a-member-of-citgo-6-shares-survival-story-after-spending-years-in-foreign-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-member-of-citgo-6-shares-survival-story-after-spending-years-in-foreign-prison","title":{"rendered":"A member of &#8216;Citgo 6&#8217; shares survival story after spending years in foreign prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Houston oil executive held captive for more than five years sat down with ABC13 about the unimaginable conditions and how he managed to survive. The video above is ABC13&#8217;s 24\/7 livestream. The image of holding onto his wife and family is what kept Jose Pereira alive. On Oct. 1, the moment he dreamed of became a reality when he was reunited with his family after years of being stuck in a cramped Venezuelan prison, night after night, deprived of food and water, wondering when he would be free. &#8220;This has been kind of a miracle because all these five years, every day we were thinking, &#8216;When would be the day we would see our families?&#8217; Every day we prayed for that,&#8221; Pereira said. &#8220;When it happened, it was surreal.&#8221; In 2017, Jose Pereira worked for Houston-based Citgo as the interim CEO when he and five other executives flew to Venezuela for a business trip. It was there when they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men banded together like brothers and said they decided they would not let this break them, with one mission in mind: to be reunited with their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}