Lieutenant Colonel Igbert Marín Chaparro has been on hunger strike for more than 25 days. According to Radio Fe y Alegría Noticias, a senior Dgcim official would have asked him to “lower the pressure” to agree to his demand to see his parents.
Lieutenant Colonel Igbert Marín Chaparro, who has been detained since March 2, 2018, accused of leading “Operation Gideon” saw his parents after days of a hunger strike. The visit took place in an office of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence with the presence of agency officials.
In accordance with Radio Fe y Alegría News the visit was recorded by the troops. The outlet added that due to the protest held by Lieutenant Marín Chaparro, a senior Dgcim official asked him to “lower the pressure” and later agreed to the meeting.
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“The officer can see the traces of the strike that today is 26 days old, but he remains firm,” he reported. Radio Fe y Alegría News based on sources knowledgeable in the military field.
Marín Chaparro was accused by the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, of leading Operation Gideon together with the general in chief Raúl Isaías Baduel, who died on October 12, 2021, and the brigadier general of the Guardia. National (GN) Armando Hernández Da Costa, detained since 2018 in the Dgcim.
Operation Gideon was a maritime incursion carried out on May 3, 2020 that President Nicolás Maduro described as “narcoterrorist.” According to him, he had the support of the governments of the United States and Colombia to destabilize his mandate.
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