Daniel Lozano
Updated Wednesday, February 14, 2024-20:38
Venezuela New wave of repression: Rocío San Miguel, a Spanish-Venezuelan activist imprisoned for "terrorism" and her family, under precautionary measures
The nightmare of the Spanish-Venezuelan
Rocío San Miguel
, a relevant figure in civil society, has only just begun. The serious accusations made by the Chavista Attorney General's Office, which
accuses him of participating in an alleged assassination attempt
against
Nicolás Maduro
, caused an anti-terrorist judge to dictate unconditional imprisonment in one of the worst places on the planet:
Helicoide
, headquarters in Caracas of the
Nicolás Maduro's political police
. A sinister place of confinement that appears in all United Nations reports because
torture, mistreatment and a lot of cruelty
take place inside
.
"We need to know what his physical condition is. We demand his full freedom and reverse the unleashed Bolivarian fury," claimed Lexys Rendón, director of the Peace Laboratory, surrounded by human rights activists, a group of women and men for whom history It has a special place reserved in the fight for freedom in Venezuela.
Nearby lawyers will go before the Court to file an appeal
on behalf of San Miguel and his five relatives
. Against the president of Citizen Control for Security, Defense and the National Armed Forces, the
alleged crimes of terrorism, treason and conspiracy
weigh , different from that of her former romantic partner,
Alejandro González
. This retired military officer is accused
of revealing military secrets
. He is also deprived of liberty, in this case in the terrible Caracas headquarters of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM).
Tarek William Saab, Maduro's prosecutor, has tried to explain the reasons that led him to accuse San Miguel in a plot that, he said, "sickens me." He did not present any evidence. "She had the mission, revealed by the detained soldiers, to
communicate in real time the progress of the terrorist actions
that would be developed," said Saab, in reference to 'Operation White Bracelet', an alleged attack against the 21st Brigade. of the Bolivarian Army Infantry, where weapons would be obtained to attack first against Governor Freddy Bernal and then against Maduro.
Through "telephone extractions", "extremely delicate things have been seen that link her to a campaign against the glorious Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), where she recognizes her role in conspiring in Europe and the United States," Saab assured.
The other
four relatives
of San Miguel have been granted
conditional release
. Prominent among them is
Miranda Díaz San Miguel
, Rocío's daughter, who also has Spanish nationality and lives in Madrid, where last year she graduated in Journalism from the Complutense University. The young woman, 24 years old, remained missing for three days, after being tricked by DGCIM agents into going to the airport.
The judge has imposed precautionary measures on Miranda, which prevent him from returning to Madrid and making public statements, in addition to periodic appearances in court.
The same limitations have been applied
against his father,
Víctor Díaz
, and his uncles
Miguel Ángel and Alberto San Miguel .
"His entourage tried to cover up evidence," the prosecutor has accused San Miguel's relatives, who has also placed a new target to continue acting: human rights activists.
First it was one of Maduro's ministers and then Saab himself who have threatened NGOs, such as Provea or Amnesty International, that support San Miguel. "They commit crimes by telling those lies," said the head of the Public Ministry when trying to justify, without success, the more than 100 hours that the human rights activist remained in forced disappearance, a common Bolivarian 'modus operandi', as stated in the reports. from the ONU.