I hope this is true. His last video sounded as though the Daily Beast was actively trying to get him murdered.
They were. He was picked up. I think it would have caused a very bad International incident because Chile was wanting to know of his whereabouts and too many people were on it. It would look bad for the US too because US citizens were trying to get another US citizen killed.
We have no clue yet what was done to him or what threats were made. Probably won’t know unless he gets out of there or this is all over.