This Monday, December 8th, it will be fulfilled a year des Nahuel Gallo arrested in Venezuela. As is known, the first corporal of the Argentine National Gendarmerie was arrested on Venezuelan territory in 2024 and accused by Chavismo of “espionage and terrorist activities,” a euphemism used by the Nicolás Maduro regime to punish opponents.
The gendarme’s family and the Argentine government reported that Gallo had been arrested attempt to enter the country via the border with Colombiawith the aim of visiting his wife and son. Venezuelan authorities said charges would be filed against the Argentine “Link to terrorist attacks” And “Espionage”which leads to Chavismo’s maximum security prisons being veritable state torture centers.
“I didn’t want to come because I had the intention of returning with Nahuel as we had planned,” he told the press at the time. Maria Alexandra GomezWife of the Argentine gendarme who had to return to Argentina with her son. The woman claims her husband was detained in El Rodeo prison on the outskirts of Caracas in July.
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In the first months of detention, the Public Prosecutor of the Republic, Tarek William SaabHe told Gallo’s family that “it was a mistake” related to “a diplomatic conflict” and they told his wife to do it “Wait and be patient” until the Argentine was released.
Griselda Herediathe gendarme’s mother, repeatedly called for her son’s release and even called the former security minister. Patricia Bullrich. “The only thing Bullrich could tell me was to stay calm, to constantly do your best and work,” she revealed.
Gendarme Nahuel Gallo’s former cellmate reported in detail about the inhumane prison conditions in El Rodeo
The mother of the Argentine imprisoned in Venezuela also revealed this “He was desperate” in view of the US military operation in the waters of the Caribbean.
The Argentine government reported the incident to international organizations such as United Nations (UN) Organization and the Organization of American States (OAS)as it was an “arbitrary and illegal” detention that could be classified as a “disappearance” and a crime against humanity.
Maduro continues to recruit soldiers
The armed forces from Venezuela 5,600 soldiers incorporated in the context of the latent tension of the conflict with the USA. The Venezuelan government has taken the decision to add more members to its ranks this Saturday, December 6, in the face of what it considers “threats” from the US government.
The Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro In response to the US military maneuvers, the decision was made to accept new soldiers increased military enlistment and called Close solidarity against “imperialism”said the agency AFP.
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During the ceremony of incorporation of the soldiers into the Wehrmacht, the officers assured that the new uniformed men were “revolutionary fighters, socialists” And “deeply Chavistatrained according to the tactical method of revolutionary resistance.”
“Venezuela has a military force, fused, trained, educated, moralized, together with the people.” Under no circumstances will we allow an empire to invade“said Colonel Gabriel Alejandro Rendón Vílchez.
From his point of view, Maduro sees the Venezuelan army as the “Backbone of the country’s stability, peace, security and future”. and relied on troops following the U.S. military operation that began in August this year with a military flotilla in the Caribbean that includes the world’s largest aircraft carrier.
“In these moments when imperialism threatens our country and our people in illegal, arbitrary, lying, false and arrogant ways, Young people are coming in their thousands to join the Bolivarian National Armed Forces“said the Venezuelan general Javier José Marcano Tabata.
During the incorporation ceremony of the uniformed men, which took place in the largest military complex in Caracas, Fuerte Tiuna, the general assured this The number of registrations for the Wehrmacht increased after the US military operation.
Currently the Venezuelan army 200,000 soldiers together with others 200,000 police officers and other eight million reservists of the Bolivarian National Militiasaid Maduro. Amid tensions with the United States, the president called on those in uniform to hold an action “Permanent offensive plan” in response to the “imperialist aggression”.
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