For the first time in a year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship and the Ministry of Security issued a joint statement opposing their demands “the arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance of Argentine citizen Nahuel Gallo.”
“As a year has passed since the unlawful detention of the Argentine citizen Nahuel Gallo, the Government of the Argentine Republic expresses its strong rejection of this unjust act and incompatible with international law,” the text begins.
The gendarme was arrested by Chavista troops on December 8 while crossing overland from Colombia into Venezuela. Today he wanted to visit his little Argentinian son Víctor, 3 years old. The boy was with his Venezuelan partner, María Alexandra Gómez. Since then he has lived completely incommunicado.
He will be 35 years old in May. His mother Griselda sent him a letter, but there is no news of him except for the only proof of life that the Nicolás Maduro regime provided last year a photo and a short video Cash runs through a terrace.
In the statement published this Monday by the portfolios of Pablo Quirno and Alejandra Monteoliva, it was recalled that Argentina complained about the case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). “Demand for urgent precautionary measures”before the International Criminal Court (ICC); for “arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance”; and before the United Nations Human Rights Council for a blatant violation of Nahuel Gallo’s human rights.
President Javier Milei travels to Oslo on Monday evening to accompany opposition leader María Corina Machado, who will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This comes amid tensions in the Caribbean due to Donald Trump’s threats to Nicolás Maduro that there may even be a land invasion if he does not decide to renounce power.
One year after the arbitrary detention and forced disappearance of Argentine citizen Nahuel Gallo
One year after the illegal detention of the Argentine citizen Nahuel Gallo, the Government of the Argentine Republic expresses its strong rejection of this unjust and incompatible fact… pic.twitter.com/fT6bYasME0
— Argentine Foreign Ministry 🇦🇷 (@Cancilleria_Ar) December 8, 2025
Since the Maduro dictatorship expelled all Argentine diplomats from Venezuela, because the government of Javier Milei recognized the oppositionist Edmundo González Urrutia as elected president, and given the lack of Argentine negotiators when the Foreign Ministry government was reduced with the Libertarian government, the government is dependent on the efforts of Nahuel Gallo of the Donald Trump administration. There are no interlocutors.
The government has spoken to the State Department many times, and the United States has always been willing to find a way to release him, although it initially looked after its own citizens, according to other press releases. Although Argentina’s diplomatic interests in Caracas are represented by Brazil, the government wants Washington to be the one to ask for the gendarme.
As published Clarion Exclusive this Monday there is also information from his cellmates in the El Rodeo prison on the outskirts of Caracas, who say he is in good physical condition but moved and upset by the lack of contact with his family and especially his son.
“It is very difficult for Nahuel to be isolated from his family.his son, his mother, his wife. Because whatever, that’s what’s killing you, right? The uncertainty about how the family is doing. And what hurt him the most, or what hurt us all the most, was that his son’s best moments were stolen from him. Because here he learns to walk, talk, say “daddy,” say so many things that arise or so many bonds that arise between father and son in that moment. And that’s actually what they’re stealing from Nahuel,” he said Clarion by telephone from Cúcuta, Colombia, Iván Colmenares. The young man was detained at the same location as Gallo between November 2024 and October this year.
The statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Security this Monday highlighted the following: “The situation of First Corporal Nahuel Gallo, who remains unlawfully detained, without judicial guarantees or access to his family, is worrying.” an arbitrary and unjustified detention by the Venezuelan authorities.” The text also states: “As has been repeatedly denounced by our country, the continued presence of the Argentine gendarme in this unacceptable situation constitutes a clear case of enforced disappearance and a flagrant violation of international law” and that he will continue to accompany the family.
This is what Nahuel Gallo’s partner, who was operated on last year with his son in Argentina, said this Monday He didn’t want his son to experience another Christmas without his father.
“The Chavista drug tyranny is the terrorist organization with the highest number of kidnapped foreigners,” posted Elisa Trotta Gamus, a Venezuelan activist recently threatened by leader Diosdado Cabello, who stated without evidence that Nahuel Gallo was part of an “international conspiracy” to assassinate Vice President Delcy Rodríguez.
“The Chavista drug tyranny is currently the terrorist organization with the largest number of kidnapped foreigners: more than 80. Among them is Nahuel Gallo, an Argentine gendarme who today, December 8, marks one year since his kidnapping by the forces of the criminal regime of Nicolás Maduro.” And he spoke out for freedom and for the actions of Corina Machado.
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