One year after the kidnapping Venezuela from the first chapter Nahuel Gallo by the dictatorial regime of Nicolas MaduroOn December 8, the Argentine government renewed the demand for his release and expressed it the most “Strong rejection of this unjust act that is incompatible with international law”.
The gendarme was unlawfully arrested while attempting to enter the country via the land border Colombia to visit his wife and son, and since then he has had no “judicial guarantees or access to his family.” He was accused by the fearsome foreign minister of Diosdado hairof being a spy and terrorist despite traveling with proper documentation. Maduro himself referred to the case, saying that the Argentine gendarme had arrived in Venezuela “with concrete plans to try to attack Delcy (Rodríguez, Vice President of Venezuela).”
Our country’s foreign and security ministries were involved in drafting the statement denouncing the arbitrary and unjustified detention of the Argentine gendarme. “In this context, the Argentine Republic has lodged complaints in various international forums and denounced those responsible to the relevant international organizations, as well as coordinated numerous diplomatic efforts to secure their release,” they explained. They also mentioned the request for precautionary measures submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and before that International Criminal Court (CPI) from arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances and in front of him United Nations Human Rights Council because it represents a blatant violation of Nahuel Gallo’s human rights. In September, the United Nations denounced his “arbitrary detention” along with that of other foreign political prisoners in Venezuela.
Maria Alexandra GomezGallo’s partner and mother of Víctor, his almost three-year-old son, both freed from Venezuela in a successful operation at the end of 2024, emphasized that “Nahuel is not imprisoned or imprisoned,” but “he is in a forced disappearance, and that is a crime against humanity.”
Thanks to international efforts, on October 24, Iván Colmenares, a young Colombian who shared a cell with Gallo at El Rodeo, was released. His story about the extreme conditions of a year in prison reached the gendarme’s family, who had only received pictures of the Argentine in prison that relate to January last year. Nobody knows when they can leave. According to Colmenares’ lawyer, there are people who have been detained for seven years, without trial or without submission to the law.
While the Argentine Foreign Ministry continues to call for Gallo’s release through diplomatic channels, the senator was consulted on the issue a few days ago before she left her post as security minister Patricia Bullrich He had stated: “We cannot give details but we will share them.” We hope this will be the case.
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