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" Demóstenes is a Spanish citizen and that is why I am here, asking President Pedro Sánchez to speak out and help me see him. I am desperate." Ana Carolina Agüero is the wife of Demóstenes Quijada, Spanish-Venezuelan adviser to Juan Guaidó, captured a week ago by the Maduro police in a false operation against the coronavirus and imprisoned today at the headquarters of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) , the largest torture center in Venezuela and all of Latin America.

Agüero has addressed the President of the Spanish government, through a video, to intervene on behalf of her husband, "innocent of the charges against him, Demóstenes is a hard-working man, of values , respectful, a calm man" . The Quijada woman described to EL MUNDO how the illegal search of her home was, during which government agents introduced "evidence" in the conjugal bedroom to accuse him of terrorism: two grenades, an explosive device, a pistol and a bag of marijuana . The accusations against Quijada, in addition to terrorism, are arms and explosives trafficking, criminal association and drug concealment.

The sowing of "false evidence" is the traditional modus operandi of Chavismo , already used even against the opposition leader Leopoldo López, as the prosecutor of his case, Franklin Nieves, confessed after fleeing his country.

"To be able to touch him, to know that he is fine. Demosthenes was my pillar, " Agüero concluded at the SOS addressed to the head of the coalition government, in which the leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, who has been linked for years to Chavismo, for whom worked .

The uncertainty of Quijada's family and colleagues multiplied since the weekend, when leaks from inside the DGCIM headquarters claimed that they were torturing him to record a false video against the president in charge . In that same place, Captain Rafael Acosta was tortured to death last year.

The Spanish Embassy has been interested in Quijada from the first minute of his arrest, and has even advanced efforts to carry out a consular visit at the Boleíta headquarters in Caracas, where Guaidó's advisor remains. Both studied the same degree, Engineering, at the Andrés Bello Catholic University.

Since the challenge against the Bolivarian revolution began in January 2019, Quijada has maintained a close collaboration with the legitimate president of Parliament, becoming one of his fundamental supports. This is not a conventional politician, but an engineer specialized in strategic analysis and mathematical projections of the proposals of the president in charge.

Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has confirmed in her reports that the DGCIM headquarters functions as a center for torture, cruel treatment, arbitrary detention and forced disappearances . The largest in Latin America, which copies systems already used in the last century by the dictatorships of the Southern Cone. In its cellars full of cells, fifty soldiers and civilians remain in subhuman conditions: without electricity, handcuffed, with bags to introduce their excrement, underfed and without medical assistance.

The torture described by former officials ranged from beatings to electric shocks, to simulating executions, cuts to the soles of the feet, partial suffocation with hoods, and hanging.

"General Carlos Terán Hurtado is applying a new method of torture to detainees in the DGCIM : sonic torture. They apply it in the three cellars to all prisoners and it consists of a very loud beep that resembles birds, which they reproduce in 16 touches every 10 seconds throughout the night. It affects especially the most closed cells. The sound is so sharp that it causes terrible disorders in the detainees, they do not let them sleep. They have anxiety and nervous breakdowns, "the right-wing activist reported last week. human Tamara Suju, who periodically reports to the Organization of American States (OAS).

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