Same thing happened to my rent's minivan. I had to tug on the cable with a pair of plyers while my dad hit the edge of the hood until it popped. It ended up being just a slightly rusted latch, and some WD-40 fixed the problem from happening again.
Here's a useless fact about WD-40 that has nothing to do with this topic. WD-
40 was named that because it was the 40th attempt to get the right mixture to do the job. Yes, I'm a
