Venezuelan authorities had been preserving an American journalist from the Miami Herald for a 3rd day on Saturday after he was once picked up close to the border with Colombia reporting on economic shortages and an upcoming local election, his colleagues said. Bogota-based totally Jim Wyss was once believed to have been transferred to Caracas from the border space, his newspaper said. “We’re very involved,” Aminda Marques Gonzalez, the Herald’s govt editor, said in a story on its website. We’re asking that Jim Wyss be released straight away.” Officers from President Nicolas Maduro’s government had no comment on the case.