Almost immediately, the newspaper *Novedades* of Acapulco published a rehash of the story and added that Archbishop Thuc had written to Archbishop Carmona asking him to retract as well. That letter is obviously fake; Archbishop Carmona stated that he never received any such letter, and that even if he had, he would have disregarded it because Archbishop Thuc was in the hands of his captors—who were progressive priests.
This completely discredits the other letter as well, since the fact that they lied about the letter to +Carmona clearly demonstrates a mendacious agenda to make it LOOK as though he had recanted.
I saw a picture of +Thuc taken at Carthage, and he look demoralized, deeply said, and even glazed over, as if drugged. God knows whether they tortured him like the Commies did with many good Catholic bishops behind the Iron Curtain. +Thuc wasn't in bad shape when they kidnapped him ... so the fact that he died not too much later suggests that he may have tortured.