• Venezuela.'Rotatable doors' for the prisoners of Chavismo
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The Spanish María Auxiliadora Delgado and her husband, the retired soldier Juan Carlos Marrufo , have lived in the last hours the cruelest version of the so-called "revolving doors" of political prisoners. Agents of the Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim) released them after remaining six months in their dungeons in Caracas, although both had for months had been issued with orders of freedom issued by a judge.

Their jailers took them halfway, in Maracay, 80 km from Caracas, and from there they took a taxi to go to their home in Valencia, capital of the Carabobo state. The Rocambolesque turn took place at one of the highway tolls, when a Special Police Forces (FAES) command intercepted them and took them again.

"It is the most perverse version of the revolving door," warns Gonzalo Himiob, director of the NGO Penal Forum, which assists the nearly 500 political prisoners in Venezuela today. Some prisoners are released, but are immediately replaced by new ones. What had not occurred so far is that it is the same released who are taken back to prison.

In addition to Marrufo marriage, Colonel Juan Rodríguez Dos Ramos was also released for a few hours. A patrol of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) stopped him when he was already at the doors of his home . All of them are charged with "new crimes", as confirmed by the Criminal Forum. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Cidh) has demanded in principle that measures be taken to guarantee the life, physical integrity and due process of the colonel.

Marrufo, who also has Italian nationality, and Delgado are now accused of attempted homicide against Nicolás Maduro and the military dome. "It smells of struggles between different sectors of the Intelligence of the revolution," political sources confirmed to EL MUNDO. It was at the headquarters of the Dgcim where the wild torture against Captain Rafael Acosta took place in June, which caused his death and the ensuing international scandal.

The FAES is a police force created by Maduro himself two years ago. Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, demanded her dissolution after accusing them of starring in hundreds of extra-summary executions.

The Marrufo marriage tragedy began more than a year ago, when the Bolivarian government involved a retired military brother in the alleged drone attack on Maduro. This year, they were accused of financing terrorism and association to commit crimes , even though there was no evidence against them.

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