• Hemeroteca Chavismo keeps Spanish Lieutenant Colonel Ruperto Sánchez in prison despite having served his sentence

Lieutenant Colonel

Ruperto Sánchez,

one of the

300 political prisoners of Chavismo,

has recovered his freedom after seven years in unjust prison.

Born in

Valladolid

and with dual nationality, the military man left

Ramo Verde

prison this afternoon

,

where he remained despite having served his sentence for almost a year.

His wife,

Kerling Rodríguez de Sánchez,

and

Alfredo Romero,

director of

the Penal Forum,

were waiting for him outside the military courts for a reunion expected for many months. Both have fought strenuously for the revolution to recognize the redemptions contemplated by Venezuelan law. The Penal Forum filed a constitutional protection a week ago demanding his immediate release for a completed sentence.

Rodríguez participated in the meeting that the relatives of Spanish political prisoners, currently five, had with

Cristina Gallach,

number two from the

Foreign Ministry,

during her recent visit to

Caracas.

The Spanish official was moved on several occasions when she heard the harshness of her stories. Diplomatic sources confirmed to EL MUNDO that the Spanish administration and the Embassy were working to secure the release of the lieutenant colonel of the Venezuelan Aviation.

A Chavista judge sentenced the Spanish-Venezuelan military to seven years and three months in prison for

instigating the rebellion in a judicial set-up,

in which the witnesses themselves denied that Sánchez had instigated them. Despite this, they imposed a prefabricated sentence on him in what is known as

Golpe Azul

(color of Aviation), an alleged conspiracy in 2014, a year after

Nicolás Maduro

assumed the presidency

.

The main sin of the Valladolid man was not being an accomplice of the ideological proselytism that invaded the Venezuelan barracks after the electoral triumph of the "supreme commander"

Hugo Chávez.

In the end, it became one more piece of the strategy used by the revolution to

intimidate those who think differently

in the barracks: harsh sentences, physical and psychological abuse and harassment of their relatives.

"Thinking differently is not a crime. Ruperto is innocent, he was even convicted by an accidental court, which is only erected when there are times of war. It was an exemplary trial, which helped the military to see what could happen to whoever thinks different, "said Kerling Rodríguez in an interview with EL MUNDO last March.

Sánchez's case appears in the Venezuelan

United Nations

file

,

which concludes that both

Chávez's son

and his two main generals have committed crimes against humanity.

For three months he suffered the so-called white torture: a constant light that dazzles them so that they do not know if it is day or night.

He also endured overcrowding in a punishment cell, with

30

other

men in just six square meters.

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