2024-12-16 20:52:00
“For us it is the the worst of nightmares. Even if we knew it it could happenwe take risks because the sensation was stronger” Yalitza García told Argentine television, Nahuel Gallo’s mother-in-law and lawyerArgentine gendarme detained in Venezuela. This Monday, the first official statement from the Venezuelan regime was released, through Chavista spokesman Diosdado Cabello, who acknowledged the arrest, but provided no details on his whereabouts.
Cabello said, earlier this Monday: “To all the prisoners in Venezuela their rights are guaranteed fundamental”. However, the case of Nahuel Agustín Gallo, an Argentine gendarme arrested last Sunday, December 8, in the city of San Cristóbal, border with Colombiaand whose whereabouts are unknown, seems to contradict the Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peacewho is also Nicolás Maduro’s right-hand man.
“They don’t inform ussince that Sunday – declared García, in dialogue with TN -, about Nahuel’s whereabouts. Yes, we were informed that he was detained and that he would be released between six and eight that Sunday evening. However, this did not happen“.
It is she who has taken on the difficult task of representing her family, given that both she and her daughter are Gallo’s only relatives in Venezuela, and who has filed a complaint for physical disappearance.
“Tuesday 10th I went to San Cristóbal myself ask border and police authorities for information about the situation in Nahuel, but they didn’t know how to inform me. Here’s why I filed a report for physical disappearance. In Táchira they didn’t know how to tell me either,” the woman from Caracas explains in detail.
However, García spoke to Argentine television on Monday from the Venezuelan capital, where he is now seeking answers about his son-in-law’s whereabouts: “According to information from the security agencies of San Cristóbal, Nahuel could be here in Caracas, in the Boleitas North Basewhere they transfer all the detained for political reasons. But this morning Let’s look at the lists and Nahuel’s name did not appear. Maybe they’re still moving it, but we don’t know, because they don’t tell us anything.”
“I cannot guarantee that Nahuel will be used as an element of extortion against the Argentine government, but I can’t say for sure because both me and my daughter we are still in Venezuela and we know how comments are taken in this country”, he said regarding one of the hypotheses that the interviewer presented to him and which in the last few hours has gained strength, given the bad relations between the two governments, that of Javier Milei and the one self-proclaimed by Nicolás Maduro.
The gendarme’s mother-in-law and lawyer also specified how she discovered that Gallo had been arrested: “The taxi driver which brought him up to speed He then contacted my daughter. and told him that Nahuel had been taken away in a pickup truck. black military counterintelligence patrol“.
“We want Tell us where Nahuel is be able to rest assured, because he is simply an Argentine citizen who attempted to enter Venezuela when diplomatic relations with Argentina were at their worst. But tell us where it is and what will they do with it?whether to extradite him or what,” he lamented, urging his country’s government to respect due process.
Nahuel Agustín Gallo, the Argentine gendarme detained in Venezuela. The government reported his disappearance.And he continued: “Him entered the country legally: I had signed and notarized invitation letterwith the entire flight itinerary that would be carried out, from Santiago de Chile to Bogotá and Cúcuta; and also the route that he would have followed in Venezuela until he reached Barcelona, where we are. “He passed through Colombia because the borders are closed.”
“Ago seven years since we had Christmas with my daughter and we wanted to do it with Nahuel, who is very in love. He packed some summer clothes (because we were going to spend the summer on the beaches), alfajores and clothes for your baby. He didn’t bring anything else and they treat him like a terrorist,” he explained of his son-in-law’s mission to enter Venezuela.
Regarding the latter, Diosdado Cabello had been blunt hours earlier, in his press conference: “Regarding what the Argentine Foreign Ministry says… how much this hurt them. A person was arrested and you go to his Instagram and his photos went around the world; but his salary is $500. How do they do it? What would you have come to Venezuela to do? What was your job here?“.
But his mother-in-law is in mourning. “They would have declared it citizen not welcome at the border and passage deniedbecause it would not even have the possibility of defending itself diplomatically, having no relations with Argentine consulates or embassies. For us it is the worst of nightmares. Even though we knew it could happen, we took the risk because the feeling was stronger,” he insisted.
Finally, he commented that Argentina has provided support to Gallo’s two families, his and his daughter’s, in Venezuela: “So far, Contacted the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs directly with my daughter and they treated her very well, as well as Patricia Bullrich and the Argentine Gendarmerie communicated with her family in Argentina.
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