BRADENTON, Fla. — Hearing the news that one’s mother has been kidnapped is bad enough. The realization that police officers and a longtime family friend were involved has Elias Diaz pondering his future in his native Venezuela.
“Going back and realizing that situation, it kind of just removes the trust, the trust of your roots and makes you want to detach from your roots and maybe even question do I want to go back, do I want to remain there,” Diaz said in Spanish, with interpreter Mike Gonzalez translating. “You kind of lose the trust and it makes it more aware of your surroundings.