Joseph Ryan Budna has been in a Guatemalan prison for 101 days - and it doesn't look like he's getting out anytime soon.
Today we spoke to him on the prison phone for the first time in three weeks. Budna was ill and battling a flu - but he commented on Jose Mai's abrupt exit from Cabinet. Budna had been posting critical reports of Mai for some months before he was abducted. He said Mai should have resigned months ago:
Voice of: Joseph Budna, Imprisoned
"What I think about Abelardo Mai? Well, I believe he should have resigned long time, long time. Because it is not the first time I have heard rumors."
"It is something that calls for great concern to be a Cabinet member, to be a Minister of Agriculture and driving around without license plate, I brought that to the attention of the Belizean people and thew following day he placed those license plates on, so, it raises a lots of concerns."
Abelardo Mai don't like me because I had whipped and I will continue do it once I have the opportunity."
"This nonsense that the Prime Minister will stand up and tell the nation that this minister Abelardo Mai fell from a horse, man, this is stupidness, this is the worst, the worst that a Prime Minister could stand up and tell the nation of Belize, the leader of the Peoples United Party and tell the people they that the man drop offa wah horse."
"When you stand up and want to speak the truth what you will find that these people gonna reach in vehicle, unknown vehicle and they're going to kidnap your backside, either kill you or do you something else, or goh put you da jail with some fabrication."
"Barry Flowers, don't think this will go like that, Johnny Briceno as Prime Minister of Belize - don't think that I am afraid of you, don't think that I am afraid to speak the truth."
"What you, your government have done to me is wrong and you know it."
"Mr Musa said he was in favour of an independent investigation and you quickly moved him from the police ministry to immigration."
