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The survivor, who was wounded in the left armpit, said that he played dead for a half-hour until the soldiers left the monastery compound around 7 a.m., after burning the bodies of five dead men and taking hostage 17 villagers including his wife and children.

"Republican Matt Gaetz expressed in a party meeting today that this is, in fact, a hostage situation. And I want to be clear about what the Republican Party is taking hostage. It is not Democrats. It is the entire U.S. economy."

"It's a shame, sir. You are taking hostage a democratic TV show," said Leman Bleu TV Chief Editor Jeremy Seydoux, wagging his finger at the activist.

Now, McCarthy is taking hostage the full faith and credit of the United States and demanding that Biden pay him a ransom of $130 billion in spending cuts.

Tellez led a Sandinista assault on the National Palace in 1978, taking hostage members of Somoza’s congress in exchange for the release of rebel prisoners.